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Undertones of War.
by BLUNDEN, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson,, 1928. First edition, first impression, of Blunden's account of his service on the Western Front, printed along with a selection of his war poetry. Falls describes it as "an almost perfect picture of the small events which made up the siege warfare of France and Flanders. Behind that one catches every now and then the shadow of the wings of the Furies" (p. 182). Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine cocked and sunned at foot, a couple of spots of wear, foxing to edges and outer leaves, text largely unaffected; jacket slightly marked, spine browned, small chips and closed tears at ends and corners, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket. Falls, pp. 182-3, awarding his highest accolade of three stars for "a book of superlative merit".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 168717
- Title
- Undertones of War.
- Author
- BLUNDEN, Edmund
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson,
- Date Published
- 1928
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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