The Altar-Piece
Naomi Royde Smith
Published by Macmillan, UK, 1939
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Hardcover
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The Altar-Piece by Naomi Royde Smith First Edition Macmillan 1939. A fine copy with no sign of previous ownership. Covers are bright and completely unmarked. In original near fine dust jacket that has no creasing, tears or loss. Not clipped and correctly priced at 7/6. Seller Inventory # 006917
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Title: The Altar-Piece
Publisher: Macmillan, UK
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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The altar-piece : an Edwardian mystery / by Naomi Royde Smith
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London : Macmillan, 1939
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. Publisher's review copy with period (1939) ephemera loosely inserted. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; Physical description.: vii, 316 p. 20 cm. Subject: Fiction -- Fiction in English -- Fictional Characters. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 212786
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The altar-piece : an Edwardian mystery / by Naomi Royde Smith
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London : Macmillan, 1939
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. Publisher's review copy with period (1939) ephemera loosely inserted. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; Physical description.: vii, 316 p. 20 cm. Subject: Fiction -- Fiction in English -- Fictional Characters. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 212786
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The Altar-Piece - An Edwardian Mystrey
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Macmillan, London, 1939
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: The Bookshop on the Heath Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 2 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An Edwardian mystery.315pp. First edition in 7s 6d. net pictorial dustwrapper by Bip Pares. Book is very foxed, dustwrapper is browned, esp. to spine. Nevertheless, a scarce pre-War title. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Seller Inventory # 2166
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The Altar-Piece
Published by
Macmillan, UK, 1939
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Hubin listed crime novel. A UK first edition, first impression. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy ( artwork by Bip Pares ) is clean and bright. It is unclipped. The front panel is bright, showing minor wear to the edges and corners. The spine is unfaded. It is gently rubbed and scuffed at the ends. There is a 2cm closed tear running up from the foot of the spine. The back panel is sound. It is gently soiled and shows light wear to the edges and slight nicking at the corners. Looks bright in protective plastic. THE BOOK : The book is tight. The boards are bright and unfaded. The corners are sharp. There is a touch of trivial bruising to the spine ends. The text block is clean. No foxing. The closed page edges are slightly dusty. There are no loose or dog-eared pages. The binding is tight, the hinges are solid. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. A nice copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted. Seller Inventory # 003421
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The Altar-Piece An Edwardian Mystery
Published by
Macmillan, London, 1939
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket artwork by Bip Pares. (illustrator). First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7s6d. A nice jacketed example of this "piquant and persuasive study in the macabre" (Sunday Times). Royde-Smith was the first woman literary editor of the Westminster Gazette and in that capacity published the early work of such writers as Rupert Brooke, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, and Rose Macaulay. Rare. Minor foxing; cloth very lightly damp mottled; jacket with very slight rubbing to extremities but really very good indeed. Book. Seller Inventory # 85708
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The Altar-Piece
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London: Macmillan, 1939, 1939
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition. Near fine in a Bip Pares illustrated dust jacket with a couple of small interior tape mends. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author to her niece. The author has made a small ink correction to the front flap copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Seller Inventory # 41100
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