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Earth Girdled. Translated from the French of 'Rien que la Terre' by Charles-Emile Roche and with woodcuts by Hester Sainsbury.
by PAUL MORAND. Hester Sainsbury
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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About This Item
Alfred A.Knopf, London, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English edition. 8vo. 175pp. Quarter cloth with marbled paper sides, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's dark top edge stain. With a small title page decoration in red, six full-page woodcuts and one chapter header decoration, all by Hester Sainsbury. Several text leaves uncut. Free endpapers lightly and partially browned and with just a hint of wear to the corner tips. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. With ten instances of light pencilled marginalia, and two more in ink. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked at the upper edge with several tiny fractions of loss and with some careful internal repair. Both wrapper flaps have been neatly severed from the main body of the wrapper, and each reattached with a single tiny piece of tape. A series of travel essays from the noted Modernist and Imagist (and later Nazi collaborator), originally published in France in 1926..
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- Clearwater Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ARC92896
- Title
- Earth Girdled. Translated from the French of 'Rien que la Terre' by Charles-Emile Roche and with woodcuts by Hester Sainsbury.
- Author
- PAUL MORAND. Hester Sainsbury
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A.Knopf, London
- Date Published
- 1928
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