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Gertrude and Claudius. Illustrated by Phero Thomas. Signed Limited Edition. Leather Bound.
by UPDIKE, John:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
USA, The Franklin Library, 2000 1st thus, Limited Subscribers Edition 1000 copies.. Hardback. approx 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Dark brown full morocco leather covers with decorative gilt pictorial designs to boards, raised banding gilt lettering and decorations to spine. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good near fine condition. Lovely smart clean cover. Author’s Signature to endpaper at front. No other penned inscriptions or marks. Pages all clean and tight throughout. Else an excellent clean and tight copy. 212pp. Illustrated with a frontis plate by S. Thomas Belton.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85178
- Title
- Gertrude and Claudius. Illustrated by Phero Thomas. Signed Limited Edition. Leather Bound.
- Author
- UPDIKE, John:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- USA, The Franklin Library, 2000 1st thus, Limited Subscribers Edition 1000 copies.
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books UPDIKE, John: Gertrude and Claudius, Limited Edition, Leather Bound, SIGNED, The Franklin Library, 2000 1st thus, Limited Subscribers Edition, S. Thomas Belton,
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Edges
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- 1st Thus
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fine
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