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Prancing Novelist: A Defense of Fiction in the Form of a Critical Biography in Praise of Ronald Firbank
by [Ronald Firbank] Brigid Brophy
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0333137795
- ISBN 13
- 9780333137796
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. London: Macmillan, 1973. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],592pp.; four leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Minor edge wear and wrinkling to dust jacket, old price sticker to front flap, small square of glue residue at jacket spine foot verso faintly showing through to exterior; boards rubbed along edges and nudged at spine ends, opens flatly to center and between a few gatherings but binding still holding soundly.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10540
- Title
- Prancing Novelist: A Defense of Fiction in the Form of a Critical Biography in Praise of Ronald Firbank
- Author
- [Ronald Firbank] Brigid Brophy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333137795
- ISBN 13
- 9780333137796
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Verso
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