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Westward Ho!
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. CHARLES KINGSLEY. Westward Ho! in 2 volumes, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Quartos, No. 343 of an edition of 1,500, pp. xvii, 292; ii, 293-576, 1 (limitation page), blue printed boards quarter-bound in cream cloth, top edges tinted red, slipcased, illustrated by Edward A. Wilson, signed on the limitation page by Wilson. See LEC Quarto-Millenary, 17th series, No. 182. Condition of these books: Spines sunned, slipcase repaired with tape, overall very good. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Quarto. 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; 1940s; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53798. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53798
- Title
- Westward Ho!
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (in Slipcase)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Literature & Literary; 1940s; Antiquarian & Rare. Charles Kingsley Westward Ho!
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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