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The City of the Soul
by Douglas, Alfred
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Grant Richards , 1899 . Hardback. . Quarter vellum spine lettered in gilt with grey boards. Deckled page edges. The image on this page is of the actual book for sale. VG+ hardback (light edgewear, top corner of front boards bumped, endpapers foxed, top part of half title torn away (removed previous ownership sig.?)). This book has a few quirks. There is a portrait of Alfred Douglas cut from a newspaper pasted on to half title. The valediction from a an autograph letter including the author's signature is pasted on to title page along with a similar loosely inserted one. Small square 'Lord A Douglas' also pasted on to title page.
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Barn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56855
- Title
- The City of the Soul
- Author
- Douglas, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Hardback.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grant Richards
- Date Published
- 1899
- Pages
- 110 pp+ 2 pubs ads
Terms of Sale
High Barn Books
Payment can be made by Paypal or sterling cheques drawn on UK banks. Books can be returned within 7 days of receipt by prior arrangement with seller.
About the Seller
High Barn Books
Biblio member since 2003
Lancaster, Lancashire
About High Barn Books
Small independent bookseller based in Lancashire UK.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...
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