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THE FIRST TIME
by WODEHOUSE P G AND EVELYN WAUGH
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leicester, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chapman & Hall, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Edited and Illustrated by The Hon. Theodora Benson. First UK Edition. Black cloth spine stamped in silver, silverish patterned boards, green topstain. Minor rubbing to spine tips; shelf wear to lower edges of boards; small bruise to upper outer corners of covers showing slightly in the text; topstain age-darkened, sunned; small soil spots to top margin of pp 160-61; VG otherwise. In the RARE price-clipped D/W which is flecked in silver has tanning to the spine with rubbing and short tears to spine tips; corner chips to head of spine and upper inner corners of panels; rubbing to folds; old internal tape repairs to short edge tears; about VG otherwise, all printing save the flap price intact. 18 illustrations by Ms Benson, who solicited from a number of notables their initial experiences in some aspect of their lives. Includes important contributions by EVELYN WAUGH and P.G. WODEHOUSE. The Wodehouse contribution (pp 265-79) is: The First Time I Went to New York, which has its first publication here (later collected in THE WEEKEND WODEHOUSE). McIlvaine E14. The Waugh contribution (pp 149-62) is: The First Time I Went to the North. Fiasco in the Arctic” and it too is first published here. Davis et. al. A304. Quite Uncommon in D/W.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490714983
- Title
- THE FIRST TIME
- Author
- WODEHOUSE P G AND EVELYN WAUGH
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
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- 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"...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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