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The Mayfair Calendar
by Wyndham, Horace
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Second Edition . Cloth. Very Good. Octavo. Frontispiece. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Second Edition. Frontispiece. Octavo, 288 pages. Teal cloth, blindstamped cover device. No jacket. Bit of soiling at spine, light foxing to page edges, else better than very good. Firm; a handsome copy. High times, somtimes scandalous, for the carriage set in London. Includes the cases of: Mary Blandy (illustrated at frontis), Lady Colin Campbell, Sir George Chetwynd, Sir William Gordon-Cumming, Earl Ferrers, Viscount Frankfort, Lady Flora Hastings, Edmund Kean, Sit Archibald Kinloch, Mrs. Langworthy, Inspector Montgomery, Lady Mordaunt, and Katherine Nairn. Sturdy, bright copy. l48n
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000638
- Title
- The Mayfair Calendar
- Author
- Wyndham, Horace
- Illustrator
- Frontispiece
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Pages
- 288
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- scandal, society, England, biography Women, Rich & Famous, Royalty, Historical, General
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
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Baldwinsville, New York
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Glossary
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Cloth
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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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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