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Ionia: A quest
by STARK, Freya
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1954. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxiv, [264] + wood engraving by Reynolds Stone to title page, red and black sketch map by E. G. Morton, plus numerous photographic plates and in text illustrations by Stark. Coarse blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Pushing to spine ends, cloth sunned and tobacco-toned at board edges, top edge dusty, others tobacco-toned. Neat POI and small bald patch to ffep, else, clean and tight. In the original pictorial dust jacket: spine sunned, nicks to head of spine and corners, numerous small closed tears to edges, plus a longer one to joint of rear panel. Very Good/Good. Stark dedicated the book to Vita and Harold Nicolson.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1374
- Title
- Ionia: A quest
- Author
- STARK, Freya
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
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