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Mr Hodge and Mr Hazard
by WYLIE, Elinor
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1928. First British Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. Pp. xi, 256. Bound in full dark blue cloth with blindstamp vignette on front cover, gilt lettering stamped on spine. Decorated endpapers. Bookplate. Light foxing to preliminaries; light dust soiling to top edge. In the pictorial dust jacket that has a shallow chip at base of spine. Published the year Wylie (1885-1928), thereto a respected poet and novelist, died from complications of a stroke. She was keenly interested in Shelley; this novel is one of two in which the travails of a Romantic poet form the story's framework. The striking dust jacket art features a recurring motif of a lion attacking an antelope. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5221
- Title
- Mr Hodge and Mr Hazard
- Author
- WYLIE, Elinor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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