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Votive Tablets studies chiefly appreciative of English authors and books Numbered Limited Edition No. 17 of 50 copies Signed by Edmund Blunden
by Blunden, Edmund
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
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Camira, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1931. Signed Limited Edition. hardbound. Very Good. 8vo. The scarce limited edition of Blunden's Votive Tablets, one of 60 copies - of which 50 for sale, numbered and signed by Blunden - this being No. 17; essays on Skelton, Bunyan, Herrick, Defoe, Pope, Goldsmith, Keats, Lamb, and many more; maroon cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, acetate dustwrapper (may not be original), text block untrimmed; medium-heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims, and text block, scattered foxing in text, minor worn spot to front pastedown at hinge, o.w. Very Good; spine lightly sunned.
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- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22089
- Title
- Votive Tablets studies chiefly appreciative of English authors and books Numbered Limited Edition No. 17 of 50 copies Signed by Edmund Blunden
- Author
- Blunden, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cobden-Sanderson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1931
- Pages
- 367pp
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian and Rare Books;
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About Gotcha By The Books
Gotcha By The Books is an online bookshop, working from home, in Camira, Queensland, Australia. The owner has been selling books in Brisbane since 1985, and Gotcha By The Books has been online since 2001. We specialize in Poetry, Australian Poetry, Literature, Art, Australiana, Aboriginal Australia, Rare and Antiquarian Books. We buy books on any subject (so long as we know we can re-sell them!). We are open by appointment.
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