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These Three. With a preface (in French) by André Maurois. (INSCRIBED)
by GABRIEL WELLS
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Good
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Edwin Rudge, New York, 1932. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, designed by Frederic Wards and limited to 750 copies. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To John Francis Neylan with sincere regards Gabriel Wells. New York May 1st 1936", and with Neylan's handsome bookplate to the front pastedown (Neylan was a noted Californian lawyer and trusted counsel to William Randolph Hurst). 8vo. 91pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Tissue-protected portrait frontispiece. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly spotted and chipped, and a little tender at the natural folds. Eleven essays by the noted American bookman..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ARC93377
- Title
- These Three. With a preface (in French) by André Maurois. (INSCRIBED)
- Author
- GABRIEL WELLS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William Edwin Rudge, New York
- Date Published
- 1932
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Inscribed
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
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