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The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
by Sitwell, Osbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, in protective sleeve), red boards clean, gilt on black panel spine titling bright;
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, 1946. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, in protective sleeve), red boards clean, gilt on black panel spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked; top edges black. Small owner's plate on front pastedown.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the book.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC133138
- Title
- The Scarlet Tree (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 2)
- Author
- Sitwell, Osbert
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, in protective sleeve), red boards clean, gilt on black panel spine titling bright;
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 318
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, memoir, autobiography, Sitwell
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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- Spine
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