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Black Mischief rebinding
by Evelyn Waugh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Nr Fine/none
- Seller
-
Kington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
This is first edition/printing of an early Evelyn Waugh novel. Only the novels Vile Bodies and Decline and Fall precede it.
The book has been rebound with a dark blue leather spine with a gilt title label. It has light double tooled band at the top and base of the spine, and around the label. It it has a tool line at the edge of the leather where it joins the marbled sides. The endpapers are not original. The sides are a gold wavy pattern, and the top edge has been given a light colouring. A pleasing rebind, probably carried out some years ago.
The condition overall is nr fine, Slight fox spots to pp 298 - 302 and on half title o/w clean, tight and sound. Please do request supporting photos.
The book has been rebound with a dark blue leather spine with a gilt title label. It has light double tooled band at the top and base of the spine, and around the label. It it has a tool line at the edge of the leather where it joins the marbled sides. The endpapers are not original. The sides are a gold wavy pattern, and the top edge has been given a light colouring. A pleasing rebind, probably carried out some years ago.
The condition overall is nr fine, Slight fox spots to pp 298 - 302 and on half title o/w clean, tight and sound. Please do request supporting photos.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scorpion Press
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0013
- Title
- Black Mischief rebinding
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Format/Binding
- Leather spine, marbled paper over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Nr Fine
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- Oct, 1932
- Size
- Demi
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Classic
Terms of Sale
Scorpion Press
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Items of value we recommend Special Delivery in the UK, and Tracked & Signed with additional insurance cover overseas.
About the Seller
Scorpion Press
Biblio member since 2019
Kington, Herefordshire
About Scorpion Press
Bookseller in the late 1980's selling via catalogues and fairs. Then migrated to publishing special editions as Scorpion Press. Over 100 titles published including major crime and mystery authors: Dick Francis, Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Bernard Cornwell, Len Deighton. Now concentrating on leather rebindings in runs of twelve copies - signed on an author profile page.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- 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...
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