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THE INCONSTANT MOON
by LANGLEY, Noel. Illustrated by RONALD SEARLE.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Arthur Barker, 1949.. FIRST EDITION 1949, 8vo, cloth printed all over with black, white and sepia illustration, gilt lettering to spine on black panel, top edges grey, 156 pages. Black and white illustrations heightened with pale mauve, some full page. The story concerns the love of the poet Dante for Beatrice set in 14th century Italy. No inscriptions, book leaning, head and tail of spine and corners just slightly rubbed, small corner cut from front endpaper, endpapers, half-title, title page and last 2 pages faintly foxed. A very good copy in good plus DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, 25 mm (1") missing at top of spine, not affecting title, 10 mm (½") chips to corners and tail of spine, spine and folds slightly rubbed). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45564
- Title
- THE INCONSTANT MOON
- Author
- LANGLEY, Noel. Illustrated by RONALD SEARLE.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Arthur Barker, 1949.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dante Alighieri Beatrice Florence Italy novel fiction for adults Ronald Searle
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
We have been established booksellers for 42 years. We are a postal business only (strictly no callers). We are long-standing members of the P.B.F.A. the largest trade association for antiquarian booksellers in the UK. We wrap all our parcels in new materials and all our books are insured at our expense. Books may be returned if wrongly described, all costs will be met by us. ****PLEASE NOTE: POSTAGE WILL BE CHARGED AT COST, MEANING THAT POSTAGE WILL BE REDUCED ON PARCELS WEIGHING UNDER 1 KILO, AND IT WILL BE INCREASED ON MOST PARCELS WEIGHING MORE THAN 1 KILO****
About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Title Page
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
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- First Edition
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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