MASTERS AND MEN
by Philip Guedalla:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
G P Putnams Sons New York 1923 G (no dj, lightly marked red cloth with gilt titles worn on darkened spine, lightly worn spine edges and both bottom corners very heavily bumped,date stamps and signatures endpapers and remains of old pencil price, small tear top of front free endpaper, back hinge cracked but binding remaining very firm, the pages are clean but beginning to yellow) octavo 171pp plus 2pp publisher's adverts. First edition. 8 b/w plates.
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Details
- Bookseller
- lobstabooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41768
- Title
- MASTERS AND MEN
- Author
- Philip Guedalla:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G P Putnams Sons New York 1923
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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theberton suffolk
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we are a family company with emphasis on good personal service and helpful advice. our stock is general, but with a modest weighting towards antiquarian and non-fiction, but we also have a reasonable range of modern first editions.
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Cracked
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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...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- First Edition
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- New
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