Blackaton's Boy: A Fantasy
by ROCK, Wyndan [pseud.?]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Home & Van Thal, [1948]. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in green price-clipped dust jacket printed in black and brown; [8],124pp. Outer jacket panels rather faded, especially spine, textblock a bit shaken in binding, else Very Good and sound overall. "A tale of mischief, moor & moonshine" - upper jacket panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49923
- Title
- Blackaton's Boy: A Fantasy
- Author
- ROCK, Wyndan [pseud.?]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Home & Van Thal
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1948]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Fantasy - Lost Race - Science Fiction; Great Britain;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....
- 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...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...