A TALE OF THE LAND OF GREEN GINGER
by LANGLEY, Noel:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1937. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Large paper issue. Publisher's original green cloth with with gilt titles to the spine, in the pictorial dustwrapper. With 20 illustrations in colour by the author throughout. An attractive very good copy, the binding clean and square, the cloth with a few tiny fading spots at the spine corners. The contents, with a gift inscription and ownership name to the front endpaper and light spotting to the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper that has several tiny chips and short closed tears with little in the way of the loss and some spotting to the flaps. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22479
- Title
- A TALE OF THE LAND OF GREEN GINGER
- Author
- LANGLEY, Noel:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1937
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lucius Books
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York, North Yorkshire
About Lucius Books
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- 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....