BEFORE THE LAMPS ARE LIT
by QUIN, Tarells (Text) and OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (Illustrations)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Landscape 8vo, 190pp, with full page black and white illustrations. A good hardback copy bound in original green cloth with red
- Seller
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Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Robertson & Co., Melbourne. No date. Landscape 8vo, 190pp, with full page black and white illustrations. A good hardback copy bound in original green cloth with red & black illustrated cover. Cloth is generally worn, mainly to extremities with some surface flecking. Endpapers foxed. Fore edges tanned and lightly foxed. Binding shaken but holding, with cracking to front hinge and some pages. Prize presentation bookplate dated 1917 to inside cover. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sainsburys Books Pty Ltd (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94323
- Title
- BEFORE THE LAMPS ARE LIT
- Author
- QUIN, Tarells (Text) and OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (Illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used - Landscape 8vo, 190pp, with full page black and white illustrations. A good hardback copy bound in original green cloth with red
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Robertson & Co., Melbourne. No date
Terms of Sale
Sainsburys Books Pty Ltd
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About the Seller
Sainsburys Books Pty Ltd
Biblio member since 2006
Camberwell, Victoria
About Sainsburys Books Pty Ltd
Our address is 534 Riversdale Rd Camberwell, Victoria Australia.
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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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.