Chatto & Windus, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. #1 of 130 signed, numbered, limited edition copies. Signed by Machen at the limitation page. Cream vellum spine with gilt titling, orange papered boards; very good with light edgewear, finely foxed to spine. Spine square. Binding sound. No jacket, if issued. Foxing to textblock edges, endsheets and fly leaves, and to the pages that face illustration plates. Interior else clean, text bright and unmarked, with many uncut pages.

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Bookseller: The Book Bin (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BBS-2019648
Title: The Canning Wonder - Signed Limited Edition
Author: Machen, Arthur
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Date Published: 1925
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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Vellum: Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Uncut Pages: 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
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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....
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...