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The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. With Drawings by C.E. Brock
by FARNOL, Jeffery (1878-1952), [BROCK, C.E., illustrator]
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, 1916. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 600. With 21 colour halftone illustrations with captioned tissue-guards, including a frontispiece. Also with a title-page vignette. Red publisher's cloth, gilt pictorial designs and titles to upper board and spine, small onlay illustration to upper. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Lightly foxed throughout, some toning and minor bubbling to endpapers. Faded ownership inscription to flyleaf. Some dulling to t.e.g. Faint black marks to upper board. Sunning to spine and portion of lower. Mild bumping to extremities. Very good. A comedic Regency plot wherein boxer Barnabas Barty comes into a fortune of £700,000 and decides to use the money as a start-up fund for his new aristocratic life (to the chagrin of his father). Later turned into a film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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- Adrian Harrington Rare Books
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- Title
- The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. With Drawings by C.E. Brock
- Author
- FARNOL, Jeffery (1878-1952), [BROCK, C.E., illustrator]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Sampson Low, 1916
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Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books, and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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