The Virgin of the Sun
by GRIFFITH, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London C.Arthur Pearson & Co 1898, 1898. -A Tale of the Conquest of Peru. 1st ed, large 8vo. 306pp, text block VG with some light toning to edges. In dark green boards with gilt stamped titles and Inca portrait design. Boards bumped with expected shelfwear and some old watermarking to rear top corner. The first attempt at serious historical fiction by this unfairly-neglected British pioneer of speculative fiction.
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- Bookseller
- Voewood Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2325
- Title
- The Virgin of the Sun
- Author
- GRIFFITH, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London C.Arthur Pearson & Co 1898
- Date Published
- 1898
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Voewood Rare Books
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Holt, Norfolk
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About Voewood Rare Books
Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.