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ARRAS OF YOUTH
by Onions, Oliver
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. 336 pp. Red cloth decorated in blue and silver on the spine. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and small chips around the edges; book plate on the front free endpaper; clipped on the lower right of the front dj flap. Set during the same period as the Wars of the Roses, the central character is a juggler, knife-thrower, haunter of fairs and camps... In other words, a spy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 225295
- Title
- ARRAS OF YOUTH
- Author
- Onions, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- ghost story; wars of the roses; strategy; killing;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical adventure;
Terms of Sale
W. Fraser Sandercombe
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
We are primarily an Internet-only bookstore, selling on-line for over twenty-three years; our shop can, however, be visited by appointment through an e-mail. We specialize in First Editions and collectible books (and usually have around 500 signed editions in stock at any given moment) ranging through most of the genres: Fantasy; Horror; Science Fiction; Mysteries; and a good selection of Literature; Historical Adventure; History; Outdoors; True Crime; and Assorted Non-fiction. We stock roughly 9000 books and add to our catalogues regularly.
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- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
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