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A Nursery in the Nineties With many illustrations
by FARJEON, Eleanor;
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Substantial 8vo + colour portrait frontis and b/w plates. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine end. Edges foxed. Printing glitches � over-printing to bottom corner of text block � to pp. 191 & 192, The Times Book Club label to rear pastedown. Else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: soiled, creased, a number of losses and short closed tears. Very good/ good Farjeon's childhood memoir was reissued by Oxford University Press in 1960.
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- Seller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2703
- Title
- A Nursery in the Nineties With many illustrations
- Author
- FARJEON, Eleanor;
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
Terms of Sale
Quair Books
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
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- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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