A Christmas Book - An Anthology for Moderns
by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and G. C. Heseltine
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., 1928. Bound in full tan calf, with five raised bands on the spine, gilt title and author on two panels, four panelsl with gilt decoration.triple gilt ruled borders to both boards.Gilt decorations to inner board edges, marbled endpapers.Top edge gilt. xix[xx][2]3-320 pages. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, of a xvth book of hours nativity scene.Music transcribed and decorations drawn by A. C. Harradine.The original front cover with the publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and nativity scene plus the orginal dust-jacket illustrated by Aubrey Hammond, are both nicely bound in at the end of the book. 4.75 X 7.5 inches.Prior ownership pesonal book plate to the fly leaf. Sound and solid binding, all clean and in good order throughout.. An anthology of ballads, chronicles, songs, stories, poems, carols, recipes and anecdotes.Near fine copy.. First Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009868
- Title
- A Christmas Book - An Anthology for Moderns
- Author
- D. B. Wyndham Lewis and G. C. Heseltine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
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Jacques Gander
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
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