Song Birds
by Edwards, Percy; Watson, R. [Illustrator]
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0906969581
- ISBN 13
- 9780906969588
- Seller
-
Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Herbert Press Ltd, 1986-09-04. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. 112pp. (pink spine) 4to. sized. 1986. First edition. Flat signed by both the author and the artist to the half-title page and presented 'To Len and Eileen'. Therefore a rather unique double flat signed presentation copy. No other inscriptions. A very good, clean, tight copy in similar jacket. Original publisher's brown boards - stamped in gilt to the spine. The text supported by beautiful colour plates after the artist Raymond Watson. Slight rubbing to the board edges (normal with this kind of board) - head and tail of the spine. The jacket has been price-clipped and has some light uniform fading to the spine. A very good, clean, tight double flat signed copy.
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022483
- Title
- Song Birds
- Author
- Edwards, Percy; Watson, R. [Illustrator]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0906969581
- ISBN 13
- 9780906969588
- Publisher
- Herbert Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986-09-04
- X weight
- 28 oz
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- The heel of the spine.
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