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A Pair of Blue Eyes With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex. The Wessex Novels Volume IV.
by HARDY, THOMAS:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1895 1st Thus. Hardback, approx 8 x 5.5 inches. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine and decorated gilt TH monogram to front. Top edge gilt. In good condition. Some minor handling and rubbing marks to covers. Spine a little bumped & sunned. Also rear board very slightly unevenly sunned. Corners bumped. Some browning to endpapers and foxing marks. Inscription to front endpaper: Ethel Banham Knowel. Else pages all very clean and tight. Etched frontis.; Map. 453pp. Top edge gilt.
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- Seller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 93400
- Title
- A Pair of Blue Eyes With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex. The Wessex Novels Volume IV.
- Author
- HARDY, THOMAS:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1895 1st Thus
- Keywords
- Literature Osgood McIlvaine & co, Literature, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Wessex,, Dorset, Wessex Novels Volume IV, 1895 1st, antiquarian books Dorset
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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Rubbing
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- Gilt
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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