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EX LIBRIS CONFESSIONS OF A CONSTANT READER (SIGNED COPY)
by E.E.KELLETT
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN, 1940 Black cloth boards with red blocked title slip and gilt titles, 205 x 140 mm approx. Top edge stained blue, 284 pp + 4 pp Publisher's colophon and adverts. First Edition 1940. Inscribed and signed by the author in ink to preliminary blank. Autobiography of Teacher/ Writer and prominent figure in Cambridge life with emphasis on his appetite for reading. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/Good (Book- Moderate general shelf wear to cloth, Offset browning to end papers with original bookseller label to paste down- Hugh Rees Pall Mall and a few mild foxing spots to prelims. Binding sound. Dust Jacket- Rubbed revealing base colour of paper and with a little loss to extremities, price clipped. Book & cover darker in colour. Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126276
- Title
- EX LIBRIS CONFESSIONS OF A CONSTANT READER (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- E.E.KELLETT
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Ex Libris Confessions of a constant reader, E E Kellett, Literary Biographies, Signed Books,
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- Price Clipped
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Colophon
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- Offset
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