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Peacock Pie First edition with dust jacket.
by de la Mare, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Constable and Company, 1913. First edition, 1913. Hardback. viii, 122pp. Blue boards with gilt to upper board and to spine. Original dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Book in very good condition. Almost all pages unopened. Faint toning to end papers. Minor spotting to text block edges. Very clean and bright internally. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Generally a little rubbed and soiled. A little edge wear and chipping to extremities of spine. Very small hole to fold on spine. Some discolouration.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1306620
- Title
- Peacock Pie First edition with dust jacket.
- Author
- de la Mare, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Ariadne Books
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About the Seller
Ariadne Books
Biblio member since 2018
Eynsham, Oxfordshire
About Ariadne Books
We carry a broad selection of books but specialise in Small Press Books, Books printed by Letterpress, Signed First Editions, Nature & Natural History, Illustrated Books, Interesting Antiquarian Books. We love our books and we're always happy to provide detailed information or specific photographs etc. on request. Although we work from private premises we are delighted when clients call by appointment. If you have nice books for sale please let us know.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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