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Taboo: A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Saevius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
by CABELL, James Branch
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1921. First Edition. First Printing. This edition is limited to nine hundred and twenty numbered copies, this being 349. Octavo (21cm); brown boards titled in gilt on spine; 40pp. Former owner's decorative bookplate of Nat Wollf to front pastedown, causing faint offsetting to endpaper; small bookseller's ticket from "Sunrise Turn" [one of the first bookshops in America to be owned and operated by women] on rear pastedown; slightly faded titles on spine; Near Fine. The brown dustjacket has chipping at the crown of spine, else Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53314
- Title
- Taboo: A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Saevius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
- Author
- CABELL, James Branch
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Robert M. McBride
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Chipping
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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