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The Golden Key, Stories of Deliverance
by Henry Van Dyke. Cover design by Margaret Armstrong
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Doncaster, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Inscribed and signed on half-title-pager by author: "To Agnes Rix, faithful secretary, who has red these stories, alredy, perhapsmore than she wished, Henry van Dyke. Oct. 13 1926, Avalon". Van Dyke was the US Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg between 1913 and 1916.Miss Rix seems to have been known to him during that period. Cover design by Margaret Armstrong. Dark blue clean covers with ornate decoration and lettering in gilt and blue and orange. Black and white frontis with protective tissue leaf, all additional 5 plates are present. Lightly rubbed corners, sound binding except that front end-paper has been removed by a neat cut, clean pages and plates. Contains black and white frontis (full page illustration facing title-page) and black and white plates (full page illustrations). No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Inscribed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10122071159. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bailgate Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10122071159
- Title
- The Golden Key, Stories of Deliverance
- Author
- Henry Van Dyke. Cover design by Margaret Armstrong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- BZDB4 Fiction; Illustrated Fiction. Inscribed by Author Unbranded Henry Van Dyke. Cover design by Margaret Armstrong The Golden Key, Stories of Deliverance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Illustrated Fiction;
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About the Seller
Bailgate Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2010
Doncaster, Aberdeen
About Bailgate Books Ltd
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