BROOMSTICKS AND OTHER TALES WITH DESIGNS BY BOLD
by de la Mare, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Talent, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. First edition . Hardcover. BOLD. Collects twelve stories with black and white illustrations throughout. "The illustrations, in the white-on-black British woodcut school, are excellent." Bleiler; Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 502.Bound in original brown cloth with lettering and illustration stamped in gilt. Near fine in very good dust jacket with light edge wear, moderate soiling on the rear panel and moderate fade to the spine panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39936
- Title
- BROOMSTICKS AND OTHER TALES WITH DESIGNS BY BOLD
- Author
- de la Mare, Walter
- Illustrator
- BOLD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Constable & Company Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children/Juvenile;
Terms of Sale
Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Talent, Oregon
About Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books has been a full-time mail order bookstore since 1984. Beginning with a small inventory of 400 books, we now have over 10,000 books. Though we do not have an open store, every year we exhibit at between 12 to 14 book fairs and events in the Western United States. All our books are listed on line and visitors are welcome by appointment.
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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