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MAINLY ON THE AIR
by Max Beerbohm
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good
- Seller
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: London: William Heinemann, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 5 1/4 x 8 in. Tangerine cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Condition is NEAR FINE ; a gorgeous book, with some sunning to endpapers due to a clipping of Beerbohm pasted inside front cover. DJ is VERY GOOD ; some sunning also, not price-clipped (8s6d), remains of tiny scotch tape on flap. Small closed tears, chipping to edges, small open tear top of spine, very faintly thumb-marked. In new Mylar wrapper. Fiction. Essay. RGR
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6273
- Title
- MAINLY ON THE AIR
- Author
- Max Beerbohm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- London: William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
Biblio member since 2008
Blue Hill, Maine
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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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...
- Fine
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- Edges
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- New
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
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