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A Little Learning: the First Volume of An Autobiography
by Evelyn Waugh
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chapman & Hall, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1964. First Edition. 234 pages. Signed by the author. Orange dust jacket over grey cloth. Flat signed by the author to title page. Black and white photographic plates. Minor tanning to otherwise quite clear pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, lighter to pastedowns and free endpapers (with some light foxing visible too). Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has slightly more pronounced sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor scuffing marks to rear board with small sun marks to all surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket, priced 30s net. Panels have very slight edge wear with minor creasing. Subtle sunning to spine.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1711362351ABS
- Title
- A Little Learning: the First Volume of An Autobiography
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Date Published
- 1964
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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