Six common things
by BENSON, E.F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1893. [6], 271pp. Original publisher's green cloth boards lettered gilt with blind tooling. Boards are scuffed and marked, rolled spine ends fraying, with some staining. Decorative endpapers remain bright, with a little toning through the loosening page block. With an ink ownership inscription to the title page. The first collected edition of E.F. Benson's short stories - some fact, some fiction - mostly melancholy human vignettes, some wistful, others woeful, with at least one pet portrait thrown in for good measure. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was an extremely prolific English writer, completing over fifty novels, four novel series, short stories, plays, biographies, and other non-fiction works on subjects as varied as golf and grave digging. His last work, his third autobiography, was delivered to his publisher just ten days before his death. . First edition thus. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ30110
- Title
- Six common things
- Author
- BENSON, E.F
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Literature
Terms of Sale
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
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