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QUALITY STREET A Comedy in Four Acts ... Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
by Barrie, L.M. 02b
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- NEAR FINE book, GOOD- DJ(in Brodart). Very bright. 8"x6", 197pp.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton. NEAR FINE book, GOOD- DJ(in Brodart). Very bright. 8"x6", 197pp.. ND likely 1930s. REPRINT. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, GOOD- DJ. Very bright, in & out. Later trade edition. Color plates with captioned tissue guards. . 1901 cp date on half title page verso but no dates on title page or cp. Blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Front cover a gilt vignette of three tea drinkers, just below which is a teapot. Book as bright as new. No soiling, foxing, sunning or any other kind of stain; inside, outside or around the edges. Book has three minor flaws: (1) Tips rubbed, one with small bump. (2) Spine ends wrinkled, one 1/4" closed tear. (3) 1st signature cracked. DJ with flawless paste on label. DJ with 1/2" chips, those on spine ends just into some letters. DJ a light brown, spine now sunned to a dark brown. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003660
- Title
- QUALITY STREET A Comedy in Four Acts ... Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
- Author
- Barrie, L.M. 02b
- Illustrator
- Thomson did 18 color plates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NEAR FINE book, GOOD- DJ(in Brodart). Very bright. 8"x6", 197pp.
- Edition
- REPRINT
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- [London]
- Date Published
- ND likely 1930s
- Keywords
- NEAR FINE book, GOOD- DJ. Very bright, in & out. Later trade edition., Color plates with captioned tissue guards., 03f
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- Spine
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Fine
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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...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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