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Over The Mountain (With The Scarce Original Bip Pares Designed Wrapper)
by Todd, Ruthven
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good++
- Seller
-
Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The First UK Printing published by Harrap and Co Ltd in 1939. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Correct first issue with red boards and gilt titling. Mild toning to the text-block with light spotting to the prelims and to a few page edges in places. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. It is the correct first issue with price 7/6 net to the lower front flap. Toning to the spine with some edge-wear at the spine ends. Closed tears to the rear cover , spine and flap folds. The Bip Pares wrapper artwork looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Ruthven Todd was a British writer, born in Edinburgh and educated at the Edinburgh College of Art. He is best remembered for his two allegorical and surreal quest novels, 'Over the Mountain (1939') and 'The Lost Traveller (1943)', in which a strayed wanderer is sentenced by the minions of a faceless state to an impossible task, and is ultimately sacrificed. Very scarce with such attributes. Ashtonrarebooks welcomes direct contact.
Details
- Bookseller
- Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio753
- Title
- Over The Mountain (With The Scarce Original Bip Pares Designed Wrapper)
- Author
- Todd, Ruthven
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harrap And Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Pares, Ruthven, Sci-Fi
Terms of Sale
Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB
Biblio member since 2015
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
About Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB
We trade as a family-run internet business in Market Harborough in the heart of the Midlands. We have over 10 years experience of collecting and selling a range of genres, specialising in iconic modern fiction and children's titles. Please feel free to browse our website: www.ashtonrarebooks.com. All items are fully described and if any reasonable discrepancy is noted on arrival to the customer, a full refund including payment for return to us will be made. Items over £250 may be paid for in instalments subject to agreement- however, all books remain the property of Ashton Rare Books until the full balance has been paid. Please contact us at : les@ashtonrarebooks.com if you are looking for a particular title or require further assistance.We are full members of the PBFA, ABA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Erasures
- Erasures indicates marks where someone has removed bits of text or content from a book. In Book Arts, erasures can also mean a...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
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