Proper Studies.
by HUXLEY Aldous
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus,, 1927. 8vo., First Edition, title and a few leaves very lightly spotted; green cloth, gilt back, green top, backstrip lightly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Mitchell of Buenos Aires on front paste-down.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1518
- Title
- Proper Studies.
- Author
- HUXLEY Aldous
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus,
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- modern firsts, aldous huxley, aldous huxley, modern first editions, proper, studies
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Island Books
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Thakeham, West Sussex
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...