A MEETING BY THE RIVER
by ISHERWOOD, Christopher:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster. 1967. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt titles and decorative border to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the slightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has splits at the ends of the rear flap fold. Not price-clipped ($4.50 to the bottom right corner of the front flap). Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper "For Bill / to remind him of the / time when we heard the / cry of a train, / with my best wishes, Christopher / July 19th 1967 / Silver Lake". The recipient is Dr William "Woods" Shelton Gray, Jr (1926-1993), Professor and the Chair of the English Department at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia specialising in modern English and American Literature. Educated in America and England he established correspondence and relationships with a number of English and American writers and poets, most notably T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden (who dedicated his poem "The Aliens" to him) and Tennessee Williams. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19287
- Title
- A MEETING BY THE RIVER
- Author
- ISHERWOOD, Christopher:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Simon and Schuster. 1967
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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York, North Yorkshire
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...