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World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Royaume-Uni
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1908. First Edition. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Black pictorial cloth with red lettering. Madresfield Court Stewards' Room Library plate to front board, no other library marks present. Contains 3 B&W plates by Alberto Martini, but the frontispiece is missing. Only plate at p64 has a tissue guard. Small crack to top of front hinge, but binding remains firm. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut along bottom edge. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scratching, small stains and marking across the boards. Notable sunning to spine, with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. N° de réf. du vendeur 1771512182MEP
Titre : Raw Edges, Studies and Stories of these Days
Éditeur : William Heinemann
Date d'édition : 1908
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Good
Edition : Edition originale
Vendeur : The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, Royaume-Uni
hardcover. Etat : Good. 1908 William Heinemann first edition on illustrated black cloth with red lettering to frontis and spine cover + nicks and rubbing to top of spine cover with designs by alberto martini. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000146957
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Vendeur : Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, Royaume-Uni
First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 312. Four tissue-guarded plates by Alberto Martini. Pictorial black cloth stamped on white and red. Thirteen stories, the author's only work of fiction. Includes the famous ghost story ''Thurnley Abbey''.Bookplate on front pastedown. Covers slightly bumped at the edges. Very good. Scarce. N° de réf. du vendeur LANDONPE016504
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Vendeur : Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Martini, Alberto (illustrateur). 1st Edition. XII, 312 p. Original pictorial black cloth front cover stamped in red and white spine stamped in red. The bottom edge is not trimmed. 4 lithographic plates by Alberto Martini with original tissue guards. Inscribed on the front inside cover to Maud Allan "from the author Jun. 18". (It is not certain this is the very famous and infamous Maud Allan, the Canadian actress/performer.) Landon's only book of (13) stories including the very famous and much anthologized Thurnley Abbey. Also The Railhead and The Gyroscope among others the latter plot involving a Juggernaut run amok in a large crowd. He wrote an impressive array of non fiction including The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the country and people of Central Tibet (1905) Landon being one of the first to describe the city in detail. A Friend of Kipling whose poem A Song in the Desert was written following the author's death. Overall lovely condition with light rubbing to covers, a few very lightly stains seen only obliquely at an angle in light. Penguin Encyclopedia p. 252, Bleiler, p.118, not in Reginald. Scarce with the author's inscription. Inscribed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 12023
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