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The Verdict of Bridlegoose. Limited edition.
by POWYS, LLEWELYN:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Jonathan Cape, 1927 1st Ltd. Ed. 78/900.. Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Quarterbound in brown and light brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; a couple of minor handling marks else bright, some minor rubbing to corners, corners cut but NOT Price clipped). Cover clean and smart. Some mild foxing to endpapers. Neat inscription to front “Peter Kenward. Feb. ‘44.” Page edges rough/uncut. Clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 143pp. For five years Powys absorbed the colour, the atmosphere and the character of New York, and gives an unforgettable picture of the city and its people in those roaring days of the early 'twenties. Limited edition of 900 of which this is no. 78.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93171
- Title
- The Verdict of Bridlegoose. Limited edition.
- Author
- POWYS, LLEWELYN:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Jonathan Cape, 1927 1st Ltd. Ed. 78/900.
- Keywords
- ENGLISH LITERATURE LLEWELYN POWYS, Verdict, Bridlegoose, New York, Limited edition, Literature first edition dustwrapper
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Rubbing
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- 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...
- Cloth
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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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
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