The Life of Tolstoy: Later Years
by Aylmer, Maude
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
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About This Item
United Kingdom: Constable and Company , Ltd.. Fair. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. READING COPY - A good 1910 presumed 1st edition hardcover without dustwrapper in worn green cloth covered boards with several small dings and ripples to the cloth and bumped/rubbed to the corners, the spine with somewhat dulled gilt lettering is rubbed/bumped to the ends, back hinge cracked but all pages secure, internally good without writing or stamps, ivory lightly foxed pages pages (page 376 has an ink fingerprint in the margin - careless printer?), tanned quite foxed rough-cut text-block edges. Black and white tissue protected frontispiece. An excellent reading/reference copy of an original title. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16779
- Title
- The Life of Tolstoy: Later Years
- Author
- Aylmer, Maude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable and Company , Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1910
- Bookseller catalogs
- Authors and Writers;
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- Dustwrapper
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- Spine
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- Foxed
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Cracked
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- Fair
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- Hinge
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- Gilt
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- Reading Copy
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- Edges
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