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The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles
by (Grolier Club) Dunsany, Lord
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Black cloth spine, olive paper over boards. Bookplate of John Hill Morgan. Near fine copy without the plain glassine wrapper
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About This Item
New York: The Grolier Club, 1924. First separate edition. One of three hundred copies designed and printed by T.M. Cleland. Title page vignette. 25, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to. Black cloth spine, olive paper over boards. Bookplate of John Hill Morgan. Near fine copy without the plain glassine wrapper. First separate edition. One of three hundred copies designed and printed by T.M. Cleland. Title page vignette. 25, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to. Attractive copy of this Grolier Club edition of one of Dunsany's short plays. The book was winner of an AIGA Fifty Books of the Year award and was published the same year as Dunsany's masterpiece, The King of Elfland's Daughter. Joshi & Schweitzer 1A.26.b; For Jean Grolier & His Friends P176
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- The Old Mill Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 305550
- Title
- The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles
- Author
- (Grolier Club) Dunsany, Lord
- Format/Binding
- Title page vignette. 25, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to
- Book Condition
- Used - Black cloth spine, olive paper over boards. Bookplate of John Hill Morgan. Near fine copy without the plain glassine wrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First separate edition. One of three hundred copies designed and
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Grolier Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Science Fiction / Fantasy | Grolier Club
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- Fine
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