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Dance of the Quick and the Dead: An Entertainment of the Imagination
by Sacheverell Sitwell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber, London, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xvi + 413pp. Pencil notes to rear pastedown. Hinges cracked, webbing exposed. Spine faded with chips to ends and slight loss. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges browned. Top edge gilt, faded. Covers marked. Corners bumped. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51528. .
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51528
- Title
- Dance of the Quick and the Dead: An Entertainment of the Imagination
- Author
- Sacheverell Sitwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- BZDB243 music, culture Essays & Literary Criticism; Art & Design. Unbranded Sacheverell Sitwell Dance of the Quick and the Dead: An Entertainment of the Imagination
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art & Design;
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About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
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Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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