The Story of An African Farm
by Olive Schreiner
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Great Britain: Limited Editions Club / Westerham Press, 1961. 260pp. Original boards; title label stamped in gilt with a design from Schmoller..Pictorial endpapers.. With an Introduction by Isak Dinesen and Illustrations by Paul Hogarth. One of fifteen hundred copies signed by the illustrator, of which this is number 1262,. From the typographic plan of Hans Schmiller. The illustrations are drawings and original color lithographs by Paul Hogarth. The lithographs have been printed in London at the Curwen Press. The book has been printed at the Westerham Press, Kent. Pages are clean (unmarked). Binding is tight and secure. Boards have slight rubbing to extremities. Housed in the original orange-brown cloth slipcase. Slipcase is scuffed, spine sunned, with rubbing to extremities. Nice copy and increasingly scarce. . Signed by Illustrator. First Thus. Slipcased Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Oversized Hardcover.
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The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
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- Bookseller
- after-words bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 136456
- Title
- The Story of An African Farm
- Author
- Olive Schreiner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club / Westerham Press
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Africa Agriculture History Farming Signed Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Farming; Africa;
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