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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - A Study in Duty
by BRABY, Dorothea (colour wood engravings) Oscar Wilde (text)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Rodale Press, London, 1954. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. No 102 of 1,000 copies. 4to in faux vellum backed, burgundy cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed portrait sketch to front cover (after a design by Braby). 99 pp on thick art paper, frontispiece, and 5 other full page colour wood engravings by Braby. 1st printing with these illustrations __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy in not far from new condition (top edge of page block slightly dusty) in the original plain semi-opaque tissue wrapper which is a very little edge-nicked. The book was published without a slip-case or printed dust jacket. An excellent copy. ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
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Details
- Bookseller
- David Bunnett Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TK233576
- Title
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - A Study in Duty
- Author
- BRABY, Dorothea (colour wood engravings) Oscar Wilde (text)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Rodale Press, London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- LITERATURE ILLUSTRATED BOOK DBBARTIST ARTIST ART PAINT
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David Bunnett Books
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London, London
About David Bunnett Books
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Glossary
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- New
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Fine
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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