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The Victorian Imagination: A Sampler: Tastings from Forbidden Books
by Edited by Richard Manton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper and age tanned on the verso. Minor ag
- ISBN 10
- 0394620364
- ISBN 13
- 9780394620367
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1984. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper and age tanned on the verso. Minor age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (quarter-bound blue on blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8½” x 5¾” (0.8 kg); (vi) 200pp; Cover art by Roy Colmer; ISBN: 0-3946-2036-4 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199114|| Condition:
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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 199114
- Title
- The Victorian Imagination: A Sampler: Tastings from Forbidden Books
- Author
- Edited by Richard Manton
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper and age tanned on the verso. Minor ag
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394620364
- ISBN 13
- 9780394620367
- Publisher
- New York: Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- english literary, english erotic novels, erotic fiction, erotic stories, 19th century erotica, 19th century eroticism, erotic literature, victorian erotic literature, hidden sexual lives, forbidden classics, first edition books, books edited by richard ma
- Bookseller catalogs
- Erotica;
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Edges
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- Tight
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- 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...
- Text Block
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- First Edition
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- Age Tanned
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