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Windlestraw, A Book of Verse with Legends in Rhyme of the Plants and Animals (Signed copy)
by Pamela Tennant
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Hythe, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Chiswick Press, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition. Small hardback, bound in the original blue cloth with gilt titling and decoration to the spine and upper board. Page edges untrimmed. 17 × 13cm, 107pp. Signed, dated and dedicated by Pamela Tennant to the ffep. Also with the bookplate of Anne Powell, anthologist and historian who wrote a brief life of Bim (Edward Wyndham Tennant), Pamela Tennant's son who was killed in the Great War. Pamela Tennant's book of poetry, much on the natural world. She was one of the Wyndham sisters in the famous portrait by Singer Sargent. She married first Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, and later of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon. Condition: Good condition. There is some rubbing to the edges of the blue cloth binding and fraying to the joints at the spine ends. The pages a little age-toned, but the book remaining in strong readable condition.
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- Bookseller
- Cox and Budge Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014537
- Title
- Windlestraw, A Book of Verse with Legends in Rhyme of the Plants and Animals (Signed copy)
- Author
- Pamela Tennant
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Chiswick Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- A.N.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
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