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Stuff and nonsense
by DE LA MARE, Walter
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1927. 110pp. Original publisher's paper boards quarter bound over cream cloth, with the gilt-stamped morocco title label to spine. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom untrimmed. Lightly marked with some shelf wear to edges, cloth and label sunned. Foxing and toning through the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean, with the woodcuts by Bold throughout. Limited edition of 275 copies signed and numbered by the author, this being no. 247. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956), English writer and poet, and winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1921), and the Carnegie Medal (1947). Though particularly lauded for his supernatural horror short stories, much of his other writings belie a mysterious atmosphere, including nature poem The Listeners (1912). Stuff and Nonsense is his eleventh poetry collection. . Limited edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ30457
- Title
- Stuff and nonsense
- Author
- DE LA MARE, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Poetry, Verse
Terms of Sale
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Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
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.
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We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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.
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Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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