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Prothalamium: A Cycle of the Holy Graal
by Philip Toynbee; [Julia Strachey ownership]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Co.. 1st printing (1947). G12pp. Original black cloth with red and grey titles and decoration to front cover and spine. SIGNED by the author on ffep verso in black ink and inscribed to English writer and Bloomsbury group member Julia Strachey (1901-1979). This book was acquired from the library of her ex-husband, the English Establishment artist Sir Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991). VG copy, binding square and tight, cloth covers clean, spine titles a little dulled, internally excellent, no dust jacket but for some remnants laid in . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1947.
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- Object Relations, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024158
- Title
- Prothalamium: A Cycle of the Holy Graal
- Author
- Philip Toynbee; [Julia Strachey ownership]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1947
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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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