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Life and Letters of Robert Browning
by Orr, Mrs Sutherland; Kenyon, Frederic G
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1908. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Biography by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, this being the first printing of the 'New Edition Revised and In Part Rewritten by Frederic G. Kenyon'. Publisher's dark blue/green cloth with gilt titling to spine. Clean and bright except for finger-marking to upper board. Minor bruising to spine tips, boards bowed. Page edges age-toned and spotted. Minor spotting to endpapers, 1925 gift inscription to ffep, pencil marginalia referring to Mr George Bainton of Coventry - recipient of one of Browning's letters - on p.378. Contents o/w clean and unmarked. A few pages unopened. xvii, 431 pp; portrait frontis. and one other of Robert Browning. All items professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.
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- Bookseller
- Bath and West Books (PBFA)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003600
- Title
- Life and Letters of Robert Browning
- Author
- Orr, Mrs Sutherland; Kenyon, Frederic G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Poetry; Essays, Letters & Diaries; Biography; Victorian; Nineteenth Century; Poet; Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Biblio member since 2009
Bath, Somerset
About Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Bath and West Books is an online/mail order business owned by Jo West and based just outside the city of Bath. I have been dealing in antiquarian and secondhand books since 2003 and I buy and sell books on a wide variety of subjects with particular interests in Literature and Poetry, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Modern Firsts, History, Politics, Children's and Illustrated Books, Travel, Art, Fine Bindings, Literary Sets, the Folio Society and anything unusual and interesting. Please visit www.BathandWestBooks.co.uk for further information. You can also follow us at Twitter.com/BathWestBooks.
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