Tales of Wonder
by Lord Dunsany
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Elkin Mathews, 1916. Scarce first edition, first printing October 1916, 187 pages with 6 illustrations by H. Sime, including frontispiece entitled 'The Bad Old Woman in Black'. Boards covered in grey paper with cream cloth spine browned to tan colour, very dark blue titles to spine and front board, the preface states: 'These are tales of peace. Those who remember peace and those who will see it again may be glad to turn their eyes, though but for a moment, away from a world of mud and blood and khaki, and to read for a while of cities too good to be true.' Edges of boards and cloth spine lightly browned, light shelfwear to corners and spine ends, some foxing to endpapers, uncut edges, light spotting to closed edges, pp clean and clear to read, binding sprung but pp secure, a tidy copy.. First Edition. Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Sime, S.H.. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63384
- Title
- Tales of Wonder
- Author
- Lord Dunsany
- Illustrator
- Sime, S.H.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Elkin Mathews
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1916
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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