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Ash Wednesday.
by ELIOT, T. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Foundation Press Inc.; Faber & Faber Ltd, London,, 1930. Scarce with the original dust jacket and slipcase First edition, signed limited issue, number 87 of 600 copies signed and numbered by the author. Of these, 200 were offered for sale in the United Kingdom and the rest exported to the United States. The UK trade issue appeared five days later on 29 April in a run of 2,000, and the same number of copies were printed for the US trade issue in September. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, titles to front board within quatrefoil gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With original glassine dust jacket and brown card slipcase. Minor bumps to upper corners, endpapers toned; scarce glassine jacket notably preserving the original paper flaps; original slipcase sometime repaired with tape to spine: a near-fine copy. Gallup A15a.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170567
- Title
- Ash Wednesday.
- Author
- ELIOT, T. S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: The Foundation Press Inc.; Faber & Faber Ltd, London,
- Date Published
- 1930
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Cloth
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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- First Edition
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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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
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