- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United KingdomQuair Books PBFA
AbeBooks seller since December 5, 2016
Association member: PBFA
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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original purple buckram, spine lettered in gilt (dulled). Slight lean to spine and bend to boards, a few, light marks to cloth. Top edge spotted. "File Copy" stamped in red to ffep, with "July 1961" in blue biro below, some purple staining from cloth to rear endpapers. Else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket by Val Biro: rubbed, nicked and creased, spine ends and bottom corner of rear panel chipped, purple staining from the cloth to reverse. Good+/ good+ A publisher's file copy of the prolific British author's 1961 novel focusing on a love triangle, set against the backdrop of the Anglo-French wine trade; in Val Biro's striking, illustrated dust jacket, which gestures to the Parisian setting. With a printed dedication: "To My Husband, William Kean Seymour," the British poet, parodist and novelist.
Seller Inventory # 3293
Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Small Shower
- Author
- WADE, Rosalind; BIRO, [Val] (DJ design)
- Publisher
- Robert Hale Limited, London
- Publication year
- 1961
- Condition
- Good+
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Cloth
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Dust Jackets, Modern Firsts
Quair Books PBFA
Leeds, United Kingdom
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 21 to 45 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
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| First item | £ 21.50 | £ 24.50 |
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Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We also hold a small general stock, with a focus on rare, significant and bonny books. We trade at fairs, online and via catalogue.
Specialty
Signed & association copies, modernist first editions, feminist & queer-related itemsAssociation member
Seller's business information
Quair Books Ltd
Organia House, Bradford Road,
Guiseley,, United Kingdom LS20 8NH
Terms of sale
F L Philip, 3, Butts Garth Farm, Littlemoor Lane, Thorner, LS14 3DH.
0113 289 2193
quairbooks@gmail.com
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