Where the Blue Begins.
by RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrates). MORLEY, Christopher
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- Hardcover
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, and Heinemann, London., [1925]. First illustrated edition, U.S. issue. Quarto. 227 pages. Four colour illustrations as well as line drawings in the text. Blue pictorial cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. The copyright page gives the date as 1922, but that refers to the original unillustrated edition.Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ''Signed for Henry D. Morley with affectionate greetings from his pseudo-cousin - Christopher Ditto''.Very good indeed in good dustwrapper with large chips at head and tail of spine and bottom edge of front panel.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RACKHAMA007607
- Title
- Where the Blue Begins.
- Author
- RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrates). MORLEY, Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, and Heinemann, London.
- Date Published
- [1925]
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