But Soft - We are Observed!. With Drawings by G.K. Chesterton. GUY CHANDOS HARCOURT'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE
by BELLOC Hilaire
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Arrowsmith,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 36 illustrations in the text; original mustard cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, covers mildly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, crisp copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF GUY CHANDOS HARCOURT AND BEARS HIS FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. The same paste-down also carries the blue trade ticket of Crashley & Co., of Rio de Janeiro on front paste-down. Guy Chandos Harcourt OBE (1903-1976), appointed Her Majesty's Consul-General to San Marino, 1961. Cahill, 105; Sullivan 621.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36471
- Title
- But Soft - We are Observed!. With Drawings by G.K. Chesterton. GUY CHANDOS HARCOURT'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE
- Author
- BELLOC Hilaire
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arrowsmith,
- Date Published
- [1928]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, belloc, hilaire belloc, chesterton, gk chesterton, gkc, guy chandos harcourt
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Crisp
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...