A Day Off.
by RAY-JONES, Tony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Thames and Hudson, , 1974. First edition, first impression, hardback issue, of this seminal work exploring the English at leisure, published posthumously two years after Ray-Jones's death. Quarto. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, motif to front cover gilt. With the photographic dust jacket. With 120 full-page photographic illustrations. A very good copy, extremities a touch rubbed; in the lightly soiled and rubbed original dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140995
- Title
- A Day Off.
- Author
- RAY-JONES, Tony
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Thames and Hudson,
- Date Published
- 1974
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Soiled
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- Spine
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and 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...