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Saint Joan - A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.
by SHAW, George Bernard. RICKETTS, Charles (illustrates)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Constable, London., 1924. First edition. Folio. pp [vi], 183. 16 tipped-in colour plates by Charles Ricketts. One of 750 copies printed on hand-made paper. Designer binding by Gisele Aron executed by Zaehnsdorf probably in the 1950's: full cream and tan calf tooled in gilt and in blind, the title in red morocco inlaid on upper cover. Top edge gilt. Silk-covered endpapers, followed by another set of endpapers with a fleur-de-lys design.Most of the plates are creased at the bottom left corner, but only a couple of them significantly so. This seems to be a common problem with this book - we've never seen a copy where the plates haven't been affected in this way. Spine a little scuffed and tanned. Slight spotting to the prelims. Very good indeed in black buckram slipcase.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SHAWGEOR027426
- Title
- Saint Joan - A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.
- Author
- SHAW, George Bernard. RICKETTS, Charles (illustrates)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable, London.
- Date Published
- 1924
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Peter Ellis bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
LONDON
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A shop in one of the last remaining bookselling enclaves of London, with a carefully selected stock of modern first editions, art and illustrated books, travel literature and other subjects. Known for books in fine condition.
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