A BAR OF SHADOW
by VAN DER POST, LAURENS:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
The Hogarth Press London 1954. first edition, blue check paper with cloth spine, 58pp, VG+(v sl cocked, sl edgewear, v sl sunned, prev owners sign to fep, v sl browned ep's with v sl foxing to ep's & edges) d/w VG(v sl wear to extrems, sunned, internally browned & foxed, price clipped, flaps v sl browned)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30668
- Title
- A BAR OF SHADOW
- Author
- VAN DER POST, LAURENS:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Hogarth Press London 1954
- Keywords
- modern first edition laurens van der post
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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