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Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (SIGNED)
by de la Mare, Walter (illus. Dorothy P. Lathrop)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good, signed limited 1st edition (numbered 90 / 325). Vellum boards (good but some scuffs and markings), gilt impressed cov
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Constable and Co, 1922. 1st. hardback. Very good, signed limited 1st edition (numbered 90 / 325). Vellum boards (good but some scuffs and markings), gilt impressed cover design and spine titling bright; text block firm, untrimmed, high-quality pages, bright and unmarked (top-edge gilt); 3 full-colour plates and numerous letterpress prints throughout; both endpapers sunned. Apparently unread.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC116081
- Title
- Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (SIGNED)
- Author
- de la Mare, Walter (illus. Dorothy P. Lathrop)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, signed limited 1st edition (numbered 90 / 325). Vellum boards (good but some scuffs and markings), gilt impressed cov
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1922
- Pages
- 194
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, poetry, illustrated, Dorothy Lathrop, limited, young people, signed, de la Mare
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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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...
- 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. ...
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