Shapes and Sounds
by Peake, Mervyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. 8vo (8.5"x6"). 23pp. 1/4 bound in black cloth & grey paper with white-stamped title to spine. Original bookseller's sticker (Charing Cross Rd.) to front pdep. Pages toned, lightly foxed, smudges to pages 2-3. Dust jacket illustrated by Peake, covered in protective mylar: 2" chip missing from head spine extreme & 1" chip missing from lower, corners chipped, closed tear to mid-spine, light tone, not price-clipped. Peake's third book & first book of poetry.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3784
- Title
- Shapes and Sounds
- Author
- Peake, Mervyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1941
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About the Seller
Downtown Books & News
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
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