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Portrait of a Village
by BRETT YOUNG, Francis: HASSALL, Joan (woodcuts)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Heinemann Ltd, 1937. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo, pp. (178) + b/w woodcut frontis, illustrations and plates by Joan Hassall throughout. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt stamped pear design to upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Spine sunned and cocked. Rubbed, corners lightly bruised. Prelims foxed, occasionally, text block. Else, tight and bright, especially Hassall's detailed woodcuts. Celebrated for her meticulous observation, Hassall went on to illustrate books such as Mrs Gaskell's Cranford (1940) through Eric Linklater's Sealskin Trousers (1947) and the Folio Society's editions of Jane Austen. In 1972 she became the first female Master of the Art Workers' Guild.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 781
- Title
- Portrait of a Village
- Author
- BRETT YOUNG, Francis: HASSALL, Joan (woodcuts)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Date Published
- 1937
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books;
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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
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