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Simple Peter Cradd
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed/Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Bip Pare. An early edition of one of E. Phillips Oppenheim's most celebrated novels, about an ordinary man who's life is turned upside down when he inherits a fortune. The very scarce A.L. Burt edition of this work, published in the same year as the first edition. Published by arrangement with Little, Brown and Co - the publishers of the first US edition - and in the same brightly illustrated Bip Pares dust wrapper, price unclipped.Peter Cradd is an unhappy, ordinary man, who inherits a large fortune from a cousin in New Zealand, and immediately leaves his family.The work of prolific English novelist E. Phillips Oppenheim, who authored over one-hundred novels between 1887 and 1943. In 1927, he was featured on the cover of Time magazine.With the inscription of Alan S. Moore, May 1, 1937, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fraying to cloth at back strip tail. Boards bright. Inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper back strip and rear wrap age toned. Loss to back strip head and tail, and to head of the front wrap. Loss to fold of rear flyleaf. Closed tear to tail of front wrap. Two small closed tears to centre of back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, but clean. Very Good Indeed
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 873F14
- Title
- Simple Peter Cradd
- Author
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Illustrator
- Bip Pare
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A.L. Burt Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 8" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- E. Phillips Oppenheim Peter Cradd novel Edward Phillips Oppenheim Peter Cradd
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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