THE WHIRLIGIG OF TASTE
by Kellett, E. E
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/near very good
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: Pub. by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. hardcover. Very good/near very good. Hogarth Lectures on Literature No. 8. 12mo, (appro. 5" wide by 7 1/2" tall), 160 pages. Orange cloth covers, with some offset browning on endpapers; light foxing on last couple of leaves. Dust jacket has small crease and closed tear at top of front panel; darkened spine with some chipping at head. Lists to this title in book; lists to No.9 in the series on the rear panel of the dust jacket. Studio
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000020484
- Title
- THE WHIRLIGIG OF TASTE
- Author
- Kellett, E. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- near very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Pub. by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...