POOL AND RAPID
by HAIG-BROWN R L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leicester, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Cape, 1936. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. TUNNICLIFFE C F. This is the 1936 re-issue by Jonathan Cape with the illustrations by C F Tunnicliffe. A & C Black sold unbound sheets of the first edition to Jonathan Cape. (Cave). Cape added illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe, all on their three new preliminary leaves, and coloured pictorial end-papers. Woodcut illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe, pictorial end-papers. Olive-Green cloth with black lettering to the spine. This is referred to in the bibliography as Binding B.* Some light foxing to the page block edges and the early/late pages of the book otherwise a VG+ copy in a price-clipped D/W that is VG indeed with a touch of fraying at the head of the spine and some light foxing to the white back panel. There is evidence of a label having been lifted from the spine. The story of a river in the Pacific North-West coast and the lives of the people and wildlife that lived on and around it. *Seen in two bindings. Binding A is light green cloth and has the spine titled in gilt. Binding B has the spine titled in black and has been seen in both olive-green and blue-green cloth. This copy is Binding B
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490714363
- Title
- POOL AND RAPID
- Author
- HAIG-BROWN R L
- Illustrator
- TUNNICLIFFE C F
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- VG
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- Jacket
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