The Tomb of Ts'in
by WALLACE EDGAR
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leicester, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Ward Lock, 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited 1916). First UK Edition. First edition.. pp. 303, (i) blank, 16 Advertisements at the rear of the book for Ward Lock's popular fiction. Frontispiece, with tissue guard. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Spine tips softened otherwise a bright and clean VG+ copy with with some light foxing to the page block edges which has crept into the text block in places. In the EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE VG dust wrapper which has been clipped to all 4 corners. The front panel of the D/W matches the frontispiece. The spine is darkened and there is shallow loss at the head and tail thereof. One of the legendary scarce titles of the Edgar Wallace canon. Kiddle gives it a rarity factor of 275 and regards it is a "great rarity". In our experience it turns up - from time tom time - without D/W but in its original D/W it is VIRTUALLY UNHEARD-OF. The last copy of this book to appear in D/W was about 12+ years ago. Photographs/scans available up[on request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490721076
- Title
- The Tomb of Ts'in
- Author
- WALLACE EDGAR
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward Lock
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1916
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Text Block
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- VG
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