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The Weald of Youth. (PLUS PRINTER'S ENGRAVED PLATE)
by SIEGFRIED SASSOON
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber, London, 1942. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 278pp. Blue cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a handsome Reynolds Stone wood engraved title page illustration. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a contemporary former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in slightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some toning to the spine panel and a trace more to the margins of the front panel. Laid-in is the original printer's engraved plate for the backstrip lettering and border. The central volume of the author's trilogy of post-war memoirs, preceded by 'The Old Century' (1938) and concluded by 'Siegfried's Journey 1916-1920' (1945)..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ARC93908
- Title
- The Weald of Youth. (PLUS PRINTER'S ENGRAVED PLATE)
- Author
- SIEGFRIED SASSOON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Faber, London
- Date Published
- 1942
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About the Seller
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