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World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since April 6, 2009
1929. No Edition Remarks. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Blue pencil marks to back pastedown and free endpaper and some pages textblock. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards. Seller Inventory # 1692961139DPB
Title: The Corsairs of France
Publisher: Edward J. Clode
Publication Date: 1929
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: very good. First Edition. octavo. Black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. 314pp. Eight full page black and white illustrations. With a half-page original watercolor by illustrator Edward Caswell of a ship. Inscribed " .with the best wishes of the illustrator Edward C. Caswell, New York 1930." Some light fraying at head of spine. " Caswell's drawings appeared regularly on the cover of The Villager, a newspaper that still publishes from an office on Canal Street where I had my first glimpse of the range of Caswell's fascinations in the bound volumes there. Caswell wrote an occasional column for the paper as well.". Seller Inventory # 53894
Quantity: 1 available