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Happy Hours with Louis Wain
by Wain, Louis (illustrator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: John F. Shaw & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1913]. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscriptions dated 1915 on front endpaper and title page. Cloth rubbed away from along edges of boards. Lower corner of front board worn with 15mm loss of cloth across corner. Gutter split at rear hinge. One colour plate (cat playing croquet) with smudge mark and 14mm tear to lower corner. Otherwise plates very good and clean.; Scarce. No date [1913]. Pages unnumbered. [196] pages + 8 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece). 5 of the colour plates have cats as subjects, 2 have dogs, and 1 has cats and dogs (2 cats laughing at 2 dogs in the stocks). Also with numerous black and white illustrations, some full page. Red cloth boards with colour paper illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 245 x 183mm (9 5/8" x 7 1/4"). .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24980
- Title
- Happy Hours with Louis Wain
- Author
- Wain, Louis (illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John F. Shaw & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1913]
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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