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The Flower Beneath the Foot
by Firbank, Ronald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1923. Book. Illus. by C.R.W. Nevinson; Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis, illustrators. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. C.R.W. Nevinson; Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis, illustrators. First Edition in original dustjacket. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying; very slight surface wear to cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with slight browning to front and rear free endpaper. No names, writing or bookplates. Decorated front pastedown. All text pages and text block edges clean and bright. 24 pages + publisher's advertising at rear of book. Clean linen-like dust jacket has a few tiny edge chips, closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
Synopsis
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited . He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028296
- Title
- The Flower Beneath the Foot
- Author
- Firbank, Ronald
- Illustrator
- C.R.W. Nevinson; Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis, illustrators
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Grant Richards Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, ST. LAURA DE NAZIANZI, C.R.W. NEVINSON, AUGUSTUS JOHN, WYNDHAM LEWIS, FIRST EDITION
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