I Have Reason to Believe. Malcolm Elwin's Copy, Signed By Elwin
by Paget, Stephen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1921. First Edition, First Impression . Cloth Bound Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1921 First Edition. Size octavo, 148 pages plus 2 pages of publishers advertisements. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, no dust jacket. Condition very good, corners and spine ends rubbed, offsetting to front end-paper, a few spots to first and last few pages else contents clean. This was the copy belonging to Biographer and Critic Malcolm Elwin, He has signed and dated the front end-paper and put a note to himself referring to a review of the book in The Saturday Review of Dec 24th 1921 in The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd. - A collection of Essays
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- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015037
- Title
- I Have Reason to Believe. Malcolm Elwin's Copy, Signed By Elwin
- Author
- Paget, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- NON FICTION COLLECTIONS ESSAYS
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
We are a small family business located in Blackpool, England. We stock a varied range of Antiquarian and Collectable Books; Antiquarian Holy Bibles, Fine Bindings, Literature, Poetry, Military, Travel, First Editions, Illustrated, Childrens', Signed Books and more.
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- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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