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Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works
Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.
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Lord Adrian: Available Copies
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Lord Adrian. A play in three acts. Engravings by Robert Gibbings by DUNSANY, Lord
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Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press. [1933] (1933)
Seller: Elysium Books (Norwich, VT, U.S.A.)
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Book Price: $250.00
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $256.50
Hardcover. One of 325 numbered copies printed by Gibbings in Golden Cockerel type on Batchelor's hand-made paper with seven wood-engravings by Gibbings. A very good copy in morocco-backed decorated cloth, top edge gilt, light bump to one corner.
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Lord Adrian - A Play in Three Acts. by DUNSANY, Lord.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence. (1933)
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB (London, United Kingdom)
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Book Price: $288.73
Shipping: $18.69
TOTAL Cost: $307.42
First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 74. One of 325 numbered copies. Seven wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Quarter red morocco with patterned cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Printed on handmade paper. Two bookplates on front pastedown, the larger of which is William Maxwell's designed by John Farleigh. Spine a little faded and marked. Corners slightly bumped. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Very good indeed.
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LORD ADRIAN: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS by Lord Dunsany [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany]; Gibbings, Robert [Engraver]
Hardcover
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Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire (1933)
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (Rockville, MD, U.S.A.)
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Book Price: $560.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $566.00
Octavo, 73 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in morocco-backed decorated cloth and protected with glassine. Very mild shelf wear. Top edge of text block gilt. Front endpaper has an inscription, dated 1958, stating that this volume was part of Lord Dunsany's personal library. Loose within is a letter from the Golden Cockerel Press dated 1958 answering an inquiry about the publication of this book. LP Consignment. Shelved in Case 8. Printed by Gibbings in Golden Cockerel type on Batchelor's hand-made paper with seven wood-engravings by Gibbings. One of 325 numbered copies, of which this is number 139. 1287101. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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