Lavengo: Scholar, Gypsy, Priest
by Borrow, George
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Rippleside, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1914. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Edmund J. Sullivan. A tight, bright attractive copy. Original green publisher's cloth with title in gilt to spine and in black to front panel, 655 pages including twelve illustrations in colour by Edmund J Sullivan. Fore- and lower edge uncut. Caligraphic gift inscription in italics to flyleaf. Borrow's masterpiece written after his bohemian pilgrimage through rural England including contact with gypsies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sad Paradise Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1708771
- Title
- Lavengo: Scholar, Gypsy, Priest
- Author
- Borrow, George
- Illustrator
- Edmund J. Sullivan
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. N. Foulis
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- GYPSIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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.
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...