G.K.C. As M.C. Being a Collection of Thirty-Seven Introductions by G.K. Chesterton. Selected and edited by J.P. De Fonseka. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
by CHESTERTON G. K
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Methuen,, [1929]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (by Dowd); blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt bright and legible), fore-edge lightly spotted, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Unusually crisp copy. Sullivan 80 (A).
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25466
- Title
- G.K.C. As M.C. Being a Collection of Thirty-Seven Introductions by G.K. Chesterton. Selected and edited by J.P. De Fonseka. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
- Author
- CHESTERTON G. K
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen,
- Date Published
- [1929]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, chesterton, g.k. chesterton
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