Reynard the Fox or the Ghost Heath Run
by Masefield, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- 5/7
- Seller
-
Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition.. Hard cover. 5. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. PO inventory # front pastedown, penciled note rear pastedown; piece of paper taped to ffep w/ the book's specifics 123 p.; 24 cm. Final pp. uncut. Text block deckle-edged w/ smooth gilt top. Half vellum (1/2 inch tear at foot of spine), green paper boards. Limited ed. no. 49 of 250 copies both numbered and signed by the author. Dedicated to Ada and John Galsworthy. Poem celebrating the fox hunt..
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Details
- Bookseller
- B8 Books and Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0000071
- Title
- Reynard the Fox or the Ghost Heath Run
- Author
- Masefield, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 5
- Jacket Condition
- 7
- Edition
- First edition.
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- fine binding
Terms of Sale
B8 Books and Prints
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About the Seller
B8 Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2012
Grove City, Pennsylvania
About B8 Books and Prints
B8 Books started after I inherited my grandfather's library. We specialize in antique and vintage books and prints as well as imited edition books and books signed by authors and/or illustrators, especially association copies.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...