The Green Carnation
by Robert Hichens
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good.
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Unicorn Press, 1949. Hardcover. Good.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reissued by the Unicorn Press with an introduction by Hichens who first published the book anonymously in 1894, and withdrawn from circulation the following year. This is a rare copy. Dust jacket has small tears to top edge and is sun tanned to spine. Not price clipped. Green cloth boards with white lettering. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Pages are rough cut. 12 mo. 1949
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5583
- Title
- The Green Carnation
- Author
- Robert Hichens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Unicorn Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Reader’s Books
Biblio member since 2019
Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...