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London Echoing
by Bone, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
E. P. Dutton & Company Inc. Publishers, New York, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Muirhead Bone. Acknowledgements, List of illustrations and preface by author. The text is illustrated with 15 black and white drawings by Muirhead Bone. Green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. This book evokes a London that the artist and the author remember when they first visited the city in the early part of the 20th century, it is a sketch and evocation of the London that they remember, even as the book was published was disappearing due to World War II. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges; bumping and rubbing of the book corners with rubbing to the lower book edges. Some marks to the book panels and fading of the back strip. Light browning of the text block edges and pages. Offset tanning to the end pages and original book seller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 173, [3] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Muirhead Bone. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Illustration; Britain; Inventory No: 0287611. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0287611
- Title
- London Echoing
- Author
- Bone, James
- Illustrator
- Muirhead Bone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Company Inc. Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB2 London, travel, illustrations – Muirhead Bone Travel & Places; Illustration; Britain; Muirhead Bone Unbranded Bone, James London Echoing
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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