Adonis and the Alphabet. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by HUXLEY Aldous
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus,, 1956. 8vo., First Edition, neat illustration on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities, chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip, and mildly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1506
- Title
- Adonis and the Alphabet. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- HUXLEY Aldous
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus,
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- modern firsts, aldous huxley, aldous huxley, modern first editions, adonis, the, alphabet
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Island Books
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Thakeham, West Sussex
About Island Books
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.