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The Taking of Helen. Signed Limited Edition.
by MASEFIELD, JOHN:
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Heinemann, 1923 1st Ltd Ed. 206/780. Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Half bound vellum binding to spine with marbled paper to boards. Top edges gilt. In very good condition. Some minor darkening to spine, some minor darkening to edges of boards. Corners slightly bumped. Bookplate to endpaper “M.&E.V. Bowater.” Some darkening to front prelim and last text page. Inside pages all clean and tight. Page edges rough cut. Else a very clean and tight copy. 96pp. LIMITED EDITION of 780 Copies only. This No: 206. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83296
- Title
- The Taking of Helen. Signed Limited Edition.
- Author
- MASEFIELD, JOHN:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann, 1923 1st Ltd Ed. 206/780
- Keywords
- Literature MASEFIELD, JOHN, The Taking of Helen, William Heinemann, 1923, Signed, Limited Edition, vellum,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Half Bound
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