Basil Seal Rides Again: Or the Rake's Regress
by Waugh, Evelyn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
First American edition (from English sheets). Small 4to. Color frontispiece illustration by Kathleen Hale. Author's dedicatory letter. Original blue buckram, gilt stamped spine and upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut. Clear acetate dust jacket (closed tear). Very good. 49 pages. Number 52 of 1,000 numbered copies "for sale in the United States of America", signed by Waugh on the limitation page. Originally published in Esquire magazine in 1962. Dedicated to Ann Fleming (Mrs. Ian Fleming).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 301927
- Title
- Basil Seal Rides Again: Or the Rake's Regress
- Author
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Illustrator
- Kathleen Hale
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1963
- Pages
- 49
- Size
- Small 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...