THE STREAM THAT STOOD STILL
by Nichols, Beverley
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- Seller
-
Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Bound in red cloth with silver titles to spine and silver fishes vignette to front board, this dated 1948 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG dustjacket(unclipped). Signed and inscribed by author on half-title as follows, " Pane with love from Beverley". 218pp with Five Chapters and line drawings by Richard Kennedy, full-page and set in text; with coloured frontis by same artist. Very minor fading to board edges. Jacket has several tiny chips at top edge and closed tear at one corner of front panel: jacket is 99.9% complete. General condition VG. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1948.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0020263
- Title
- THE STREAM THAT STOOD STILL
- Author
- Nichols, Beverley
- Illustrator
- Kennedy, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- sIgned 1st Edition, Bev Nichols,"The Stream That Stood Still"
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- Edges
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- VG
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- Inscribed
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