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Verses
by WHITE, T.H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Alderney: Privately printed for the author, 1962.. Limited edition, no. 90 of 100 copies. 8vo. Publisher's parchment backed red-orange cloth boards, gilt lettered to the spine, author's initials in gilt to the upper board, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original glassine wrapper, presentation inscription on the limitation page from White to the travel writer Wilfred Thesiger with the former's customary doodle of a heart with an arrow through it, Thesiger's pictorial bookplate to the verso of the front free endpaper. Wear with some losses to the edges of the glassine, just slight sunning to the upper edge of each board and mild bumping to the corners, an attractive copy. Previously sold in Maggs Bros. catalogue no. 1193 "Books from the Library of Wilfred Thesiger", issued in 1995. In the description Thesiger reminisces "While I was with John Verney in Florence in 1961-62, and writing The Marsh Arabs, Tim White was frequently with us. It was certainly rewarding to spend so long with such an unusual character."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42443
- Title
- Verses
- Author
- WHITE, T.H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alderney: Privately printed for the author
- Date Published
- 1962.
- Keywords
- Literature Poetry
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bow Windows Bookshop
Biblio member since 2006
Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- 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...
- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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