The Noble Savage: A Life of Paul Gauguin
by HANSON, Lawrence & Elisabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Readers Union / Chatto & Windus, 1956. Hardback. First edition, 1956. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good minus condition; mild edgewear with some marks, bumps to corners and spine, foxing to fore edges, pages clean and tightly bound, sunned to spine. No dust jacket. Published: Readers Union / Chatto & Windus, 1956
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13466
- Title
- The Noble Savage: A Life of Paul Gauguin
- Author
- HANSON, Lawrence & Elisabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Readers Union / Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1956
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...