FABULOUS SPAIN
by Reynolds, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953].. Large octavo. Cloth. Illustrations and pictorial endsheets by the author. Old tape ghosts in corners of free endsheets, otherwise a very good copy in moderately edgeworn pictorial dust jacket with narrow chip at crown of upper spine fold. First edition. In all likelihood the dedication copy, inscribed on the half-title by the author: "For Mag - with all my best - always - R [star]." The printed dedication is "To Margaret Mower Traveler in Spain, whose interest in all that is Spanish marches with my own." Reynolds's friendship with actress Mower stems from his work as stage designer and a photograph of them together from the LC Bains collection is widely disseminated on the web.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT86046
- Title
- FABULOUS SPAIN
- Author
- Reynolds, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953].
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About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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- Cloth
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- Dedication Copy
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- Octavo
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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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....
- G
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