Harlequin Phoenix or The Rise and Fall of a Bergamask Rogue.
by Niklaus (Thelma) (Jacket by Mervyn Peake)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, (1956). First edition.. Yellow boards, spine lettered in black. Some discoloration of boards, jacket browned at edges and rear panel, small stains; in general, a decent, very good copy. Numerous illustrations, some in colour, one folding. Dust jacket art by Mervyn Peake. Traces the colourful history of this dramatic clown through the ages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50341
- Title
- Harlequin Phoenix or The Rise and Fall of a Bergamask Rogue.
- Author
- Niklaus (Thelma) (Jacket by Mervyn Peake)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: The Bodley Head, (1956). First edition.
- Keywords
- phoenix mervyn peake drama theatre
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- General;
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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