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The Lady with the Rose
by Alice A. Walker
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$63.07NZ$47.29
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About This Item
The Lady with the Rose by Alice A. Walker.
Hardback, 1914, first edition, published by Digby, Long & Co., London, 68 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 1/2" by 5 1/8" by 1/2". Olive-green cloth binding, gilt lettering and edging to front board and spine, embossed crest to rear board. Marking and scuffing to binding, discolouration to edges. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges. Binding reasonably firm. Page edges browned, slightly tanned and a bit marked. A little marking to endpapers and page surfaces but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-118
- Title
- The Lady with the Rose
- Author
- Alice A. Walker
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Digby, Long & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1914
- Pages
- 68
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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