The Happy Dream
by J. B. Priestly
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1976. Bound with a black buckram cloth spine and shoulders, with gilt lettering, yellow and grey marbled cloth boards.Top edge gilt, with fore and lower page edges untrimmed. Black endpapers.[viii]35[36-40]pages.6 X 8 inches. In black paperbound hard slipcase.This is from the limitation page at the end of the book: "One of 400 copies hand-set in Caslon type and printed by John and Rosalind Randle and Tim Jollands at Whittington Court on mould-made paperfrom St Curhbert's Mill, Wookey Hole, and bound by Hunter and Foulis.Printing completed April 1976. This copy no. 72". Signed by J. B. Priestly.Fine book in a very good slipcase.. Signed by Author. Signed Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010003
- Title
- The Happy Dream
- Author
- J. B. Priestly
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Signed Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Whittington Press
- Place of Publication
- Andoversford, Gloucestershire
- Date Published
- 1976
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jacques Gander
Biblio member since 2004
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
Out of print, rare and used books. Internet and mail order.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...