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Essays in Biography
by KEYNES, John Maynard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Glendale, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
8vo., 8 plates; First edition, second issue, published 2 months after the first edition "with minor Corrections"; Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Dust-wrapper, price-clipped, with sunning (darkening) to spine, is otherwise bright and clean, with some slight edgewear and minor chipping to top and base of spine panel. Dust-wrapper held in removable protective archival mylar sleeve. Green cloth binding has faded to top edges, but otherwise bright and fresh, in fine condition -- tight, square, sharp-cornered. Pages all clean, no ownership inscription or other markings. Original bookseller's label to base of front paste-down. An excellent copy and one if the nicest you'll ever see.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 402
- Title
- Essays in Biography
- Author
- KEYNES, John Maynard
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's Cloth & Dustwrapper
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition, second impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Economics, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Summer Miscellany 2024;
Terms of Sale
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glendale, California
About Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books LLC, specializes in books from the 16th through 20th century. We stock many books in the field of literature, Western philosophy, Greek classics, the history of ideas, Medicine & Science & fine sets. We are always looking to purchase individual books in our areas of interest.
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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