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Saint Joan Of Arc.
by SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Cobden-Sanderson,, 1936. Signed by the author, with appealing provenance First edition, signed limited issue, one of 20 unnumbered copies signed by the author and not for sale; the signed limited issue, comprising 120 copies in total, was bound in cream cloth, rather than the orange cloth used for the trade issue. This copy has an appealing provenance, from the library of Kenneth Rae, a director of Cobden-Sanderson, the publishers of this volume, with his bookplate designed by Rex Whistler. Large octavo. Original cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Photographic frontispiece, 8 plates, 4 maps (one folding). Some toning to spine and top edge of front cover, covers somewhat foxed, internally fresh and bright. A very good copy. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A31(b).
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145972
- Title
- Saint Joan Of Arc.
- Author
- SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Cobden-Sanderson,
- Date Published
- 1936
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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