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About This Item
London: The Hogarth Press,, 1928. First edition, first impression, of the first book in English on Proust. It was published in November 1928 in an edition of 1,200 copies. Small octavo. Original marbled cloth, white paper spine label lettered in red, top edge red. With dust jacket. Bookseller label to rear pastedown. A fine copy in scarce dust jacket, lightly rubbed, spine toned with some minor loss, extremities slightly nicked and creased, a few short closed tears, an excellent example. Woolmer 156.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162332
- Title
- Proust.
- Author
- BELL, Clive
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: The Hogarth Press,
- Date Published
- 1928
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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