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Tactical Exercise.
by WAUGH, Evelyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1954. . First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; bookplate to front free endpaper, else internally fine; publisher's teal cloth, gilt lettering to spine, extremities faintly rubbed, upper edge and spine sunned, with the original unclipped dustjacket, the faintest of abrasions at head of spine, else fine, housed in modern teal cloth clamshell box.
Presentation copy of this first edition of short stories, for which there is no British equivalent, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, 'For Frankie / with love from / Evelyn / Christmas 1954'.
Presentation copy of this first edition of short stories, for which there is no British equivalent, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, 'For Frankie / with love from / Evelyn / Christmas 1954'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110688
- Title
- Tactical Exercise.
- Author
- WAUGH, Evelyn
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1954.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Shapero Rare Books
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London, London
About Shapero Rare Books
Specialising in rare books on Travel & Voyages, Natural History, Literature (including modern first editions), Children's Books, Guide Books, Judaica & Hebraica, titles of Russian interest, and Islamica.
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