archy & mehitabel
by MARQUIS, Don
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+
- Seller
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Ernest Benn Limited, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st UK Edition,1st Printing. 12.6 x 19 cm black boards with gilt stamped titles to the spine, 208pp, with original unclipped dust jacket priced at eight & sixpence. Clean boards with just a hint of ghosting from the jacket on the front board, bright titles and firm sharp corners. A neat name and date - March 1931- on the front free endpaper. Some foxing to the edge of the text block. The dust jacket is a little toned on the spine and lightly dust stained with minimal loss to the spine tips and corners, a 2.5cm tear on the top fore edge of the front panel, a 1cm tear on the bottom of the rear joint and a 0.8cm chip on the top of the rear joint. Very scarce 1st UK edition of this much loved American satire. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201380
- Title
- archy & mehitabel
- Author
- MARQUIS, Don
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Ernest Benn Limited
- Date Published
- 1931
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About the Seller
Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
About Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Rainford & Parris Books is a small family business based on the Hertfordshire / Essex border, close to London Stansted Airport. We are full time professional bookdealers specialising mainly in Modern First Editions, Children's Books, Illustrated Books and Nineteenth Century Literature, as well as assorted fine and interesting books. When describing our books we attempt to list all significant defects to a high degree of precision, so that you can build an accurate idea of their condition. We supplement our description with images and are always happy to provide further images or information. All books are very carefully packaged in a new book-box so that they reach you in the condition described.
Glossary
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG+/VG+
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition. Very...