The Twelve Months. Designed and with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
by LLEWELYN POWYS AND ROBERT GIBBINGS
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 100 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author and artist (this being #42). Tall 8vo. 88pp. Green leather, gilt lettered at the spine and with gilt-stamped initials to the upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Leather discoloured at the backstrip, as is invariably the case, and with some further discolouration to several margins of the upper and lower boards. Free endpapers and pastedowns lightly spotted. A very good copy, in excellent crisp state internally. No dust wrapper called-for, but lacking the slipcase. Twelve essays, one for each month of the year, all reproduced from the pages of the 'Daily Herald' and beautifully enhanced with a frontispiece engraving, twelve delightful Gibbings chapter header engravings and twelve further tail pieces. Foss A15..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ARC92737
- Title
- The Twelve Months. Designed and with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
- Author
- LLEWELYN POWYS AND ROBERT GIBBINGS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- John Lane, The Bodley Head, London
- Date Published
- 1936
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...