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THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES
by CHURCHILL, WINSTON S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate General Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1932. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Previous owner's signature, dated 1932 on front free endpaper.Half-title and title-pages are foxed. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Text block is clean. A collection of twenty-three essays on a wide range of subjects. 320pp. Woods A39(a). . First English Edition. Olive Green Cloth. Moderate General Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Medium Crown Octavo.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015592
- Title
- THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES
- Author
- CHURCHILL, WINSTON S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate General Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- Thornton Butterworth Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- Medium Crown Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Churchill, Essays
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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