The Radium Casket
by Bourne, Lawrence
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Copyright page has "Printed 1926 in Great Britain by R. Clay and Sons". 160 pages + colour frontispiece + 12 illustrations (some full page). Multi-coloured papered boards. Purple lettering on front board. Spine is green with black lettering. Dimensions: 8 1/2" by 6 3/8" by 1 5/8". No signatures. Some spots of foxing to a few leaves at rear. Some spotting to top page edges. Dust wrapper has a 3" ragged tear in front panel and a 2" ragged tear in the rear panel. 1" and smaller chips at edges and corners of dustwrapper. 1" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper in archival mylar cover. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003364
- Title
- The Radium Casket
- Author
- Bourne, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Fiction Children's Adventure Literature
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Dustwrapper
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