Playthings and Parodies.
by Pain (Barry)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
cat40a. NY: Cassell, (1892). First American edition. Blue pictorial cloth, front cover designed and lettered in pink and red, spine designed in pink and lettered in gilt. Small ownership sticker of collector John Ruyle on inner front cover, a bit of darkening to edges, but a nice bright copy, quite attractive. A collection of comical short parodies and sketches, several with fantastic and supernatural content. The British edition appeared from Cassell in 1892.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52823
- Title
- Playthings and Parodies.
- Author
- Pain (Barry)
- Illustrator
- cat40a
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Bookseller catalogs
- SFcat;
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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