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Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the County of the Two Rivers. With an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue K.C.V.O.
by HENRY WILLIAMSON
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
G.P.Putnam & Sons Ltd, London, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, the deluxe large-paper issue, limited to 1,100 copies [in fact only 1,000]. Tall 8vo. xii, 255pp. Cloth-backed cream buckram with a gold-stamped leather spine label. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The buckram a little darkened and with the tiniest hint of chafing and scoring to the leather spine label. Endpapers lightly spotted with some browning to a blank flyleaf and to the last printed leaf. A very crisp and bright copy of a handsome production. No dust wrapper called for. Henry Williamson Society reprint of the original pre-publication prospectus laid-in..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BC16087
- Title
- Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the County of the Two Rivers. With an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue K.C.V.O.
- Author
- HENRY WILLIAMSON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- G.P.Putnam & Sons Ltd, London
- Date Published
- 1927
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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