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Lord Halifax's Ghost Book
by Viscount Halifax [Charles Lindley] - ed
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Didier Publishing Company, 1944. Presumed first American edition. 8vo, 298pp. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, illustrated jacket and adaptation of a William Blake Drawing. Very good, boards slightly bowed and with some bruising to spine ends, clean internally. Jacket very good with toning to rear panel, some rubbing, and a few small chips to edges of front and rear panels and spine ends. Collection of supernatural stories passed down by family and friends and kept in manuscript by the Viscount Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (1881-1959). Originally published in London by Geoffrey Bles in 1936, with a second volume appearing in 1937. The American edition by Didier is uncommon in the jacket.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 4915
- Title
- Lord Halifax's Ghost Book
- Author
- Viscount Halifax [Charles Lindley] - ed
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, 298pp. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, illustrated jacket and adaptation of a William Blake Drawing. Very
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed first American edition
- Publisher
- Didier Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
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GIG HARBOR, Washington
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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