The Weald of Youth. [Illustrated by Reynolds Stone]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by SASSOON Siegfried
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber,, [1942]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted, browned and frayed at edges, and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip (not affecting lettering). The second volume of Sassoon's factual autobiography. Increasingly elusive in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Keynes, A49; V&A Catalogue 124.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14680
- Title
- The Weald of Youth. [Illustrated by Reynolds Stone]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- SASSOON Siegfried
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber,
- Date Published
- [1942]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, sassoon, siegfried sassoon, autobiography, biography, weald, kent, sussex, hunting, countryside
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Tail
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- Dustwrapper
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