Norman Douglas: A Pictorial Record With a Critical and Biographical Study
by FITZGIBBON, Constantine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The McBride Company, 1953. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 71pp. Frontispiece, numerous full-page rectos-only illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly age toned, else superb. Quite tight and exceptionally handsome first U.S. edition of this well-illustrated look at the British author best known for "South Wind," with copyright page year neatly cancelled by publisher. Limited to 364 numbered copies (this #271).
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44630
- Title
- Norman Douglas: A Pictorial Record With a Critical and Biographical Study
- Author
- FITZGIBBON, Constantine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The McBride Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Literary Biography;
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