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Quest for Sita.
by Maurice Collis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
£158.00£142.20
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11.5" by 8.5". Mervyn Peake . A pleasing first limited edition copy of Maurice Collis's retelling of a section from the Sanskrit epic 'The Ramayana'. Copiously illustrated throughout by the renowned English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator Mervyn Peake. This edition, printed on English hand-made paper, was limited to five hundred copies for sale. This copy is lacking the original dustwrapper, as usual. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with red stamped pictorial design to the front board. Externally excellent, with minor shelfwear to extremities and head and tail of spine. Ink mark and evidence of slip tipped to front free-endpaper, now removed. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Limited edition colophon slip loosely inserted to title page. Institutional stamp to the title page Very Good Indeed
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 639M19
- Title
- Quest for Sita.
- Author
- Maurice Collis
- Illustrator
- Mervyn Peake
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 11.5" by 8.5"
- Keywords
- Collis Peake First Edition Limited Edition Peake Sanskrit
Terms of Sale
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Books are sent on approval and may be returned in like condition for any reason within 14 days of receipt. Responsibility of return to be with the purchaser.
About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
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Welcome to Rooke Books Antiquarian Bookseller
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Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Colophon
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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...
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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