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Westward Ho! (2 vols)
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Limied Edition Signed Numbered. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Edward A. Wilson. Limted Editions Club, number 183 of 1,500 copies, signed by the illustrator, Edward Wilson in green ink on colophon page, This Edition of Westward Ho! has been made for the members of the Limited Editions Club and printed by the Akerman-Standard Press, The illustrations having been drawn by Edward A. Wilson and printed in gravure by the photogravure & color company with the colors applied by hand, Westard Ho! or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh Knight, or Burrough in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Two Volume set, lacking slipcase. Books are near Fine, quarter bound cloth spine over aqua boardss, spine decorated with 5 black red and gold crowns, spines show a touch of sunning, front boards with illustrations of hand painted gold earth with a ship, tight and square with sharp corners, No previous owner bookplate or writing, very sound binding. A very clean and most presentable signed Limited Editions Club at a bargain price. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001380
- Title
- Westward Ho! (2 vols)
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Illustrator
- Edward A. Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limied Edition Signed Numbered
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Limited Editions Club
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
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About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Spine
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- Bookplate
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Cloth
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