Crossings: A Fairy Play
by DE LA MARE, Walter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
First edition. Octavo. Pictorial title page, printed in light green, orange and gray. Title page, b/w headings, tailpieces, endpapers and cover design by Randolph Schwabe; 4 musical examples by C. Armstrong Gibbs. Original 1/2 tan buckram over green and red holly-leaf design decorated boards, gilt stamped spine, uncut. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Five-act play for children. Number 278 of 330 copies on handmade paper, printed by S.R. Minns at the Beaumont Press, October 29, 1921. The 13th book of the press.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1914
- Title
- Crossings: A Fairy Play
- Author
- DE LA MARE, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Beaumont Press
- Place of Publication
- Westminster
- Date Published
- 1921
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....