Smouldering Fire
by STEVENSON, D. E
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
Item Price
£169.25£143.86
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1935 Extremely scarce first edition. Red cloth with titles in black on spine and upper front board, tinted top edges, endpaper maps, 4 pages of book ads at rear. This copy has been professionally restored with new cloth under the original at the spine, all lettering is intact and clear, tight bindings, square text block. Light soiling to cover, small ownership details in front endpaper, faint foxing in edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mainly Fiction
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010340
- Title
- Smouldering Fire
- Author
- STEVENSON, D. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Terms of Sale
Mainly Fiction
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About the Seller
Mainly Fiction
Biblio member since 2005
Auckland
About Mainly Fiction
We are a home-based business trading successfully for several years.New Zealand is a great source for the categories of books we are trading in.
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