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Selected Writings of Washington Irving (Modern Library #240.1)
by IRVING, Washington
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1964]. Hardcover. This Modern Library edition includes selections from Washington Irving's "The Sketch Book [of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]", "Bracebridge Hall", "Tales of a Traveller", "The Alhambra", "Wolfert's Roost" and with the unabridged "[Diedrich] Knickerbocker's History of New York." Edited, with an introduction by Saxe Commins. --- In Toledano spine 11 / blue cloth / ML hex torchbearer device blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 393 titles in ML catalog. (Jacket likely printed a few years before this copy of the book was produced.) Likely published c.1964 (though 1945 date appears in book). ML #240.1. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy, though with creases to corners of a few leaves due to a binder's error and inked signatures to front free endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine & light chafing to extremities, otherwise bright, intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xix, 669 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85136
- Title
- Selected Writings of Washington Irving (Modern Library #240.1)
- Author
- IRVING, Washington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1964]
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- 12mo
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- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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