The Adventure of Living: A Subjective Autobiography
by John St. Loe Strachey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. Includes letter from Strachey to Sir Langdon Bonython of Adelaide, Australia, on The Spectator letterhead, typed and signed by Strachey, dated 8th January, 1923. Letter is neatly glued into rear endpaper. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Britain/UK; Literature & Literary. Signed by Author. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 7188. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7188
- Title
- The Adventure of Living: A Subjective Autobiography
- Author
- John St. Loe Strachey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Essays & Literary Criticism; Britain/UK; Literature & Literary. Signed by Author John St. Loe Strachey The Adventure of Living: A Subjective Autobiography
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....