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The sword in the stone
by White, T. H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Collins. Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in black cloth with white titles, spine ends pulled, cloth worn at corners, bottom corners bumped, page edges foxed, name on front endpaper and bookplate on front pastedown. 340 pages, illustrations in the text .
Synopsis
The Sword in the Stone is a novel by T. H. White, published in 1938, initially a stand-alone work but now the first part of a tetralogy The Once and Future King. Walt Disney Productions adapted the story to an animated film, and the BBC adapted it to radio.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68626
- Title
- The sword in the stone
- Author
- White, T. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Humour, King Arthur, The Round table, Camelot
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Prewar;
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
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Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
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