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Broomsticks and Other Tales
by De la MARE, Walter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. Octavo, viii, 378 pages with 38 charming woodcuts by Bold. Quarter cloth and papered boards with a leather titling-label on the spine; top edge gilt, others uncut; spine very lightly sunned; paper on the corner-tips slightly worn; early ownership details; an excellent copy. Number 183 of only 278 copies signed by the author. Provenance: 'R.N. Finlayson | from W.J. Isbister | 7.12 35' is written in ink on the front free endaper. Ronald Nickels (Jack) Finlayson (1882-1945), was a South Australian lawyer and law lecturer, a member of the Boards of Governors of the State Library and of the Art Gallery, and a serious collector of books. William James Isbister (1866-1950) was also a South Australian lawyer and law lecturer, and a member of the University of Adelaide Council, 1905-1949. A later ownership signature, dated 1955, is pencilled in under the inscription.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71395
- Title
- Broomsticks and Other Tales
- Author
- De la MARE, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable & Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- 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...
- First Edition
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