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Patches of Sunlight: Available Copies

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PATCHES OF SUNLIGHT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    by Lord Dunsany

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1938)


    Seller: Book Alley (Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $75.00
    Shipping: $6.00
    TOTAL Cost: $81.00

(1938) Good in Good unclipped dust jacket; dust jacket has open tearing to extremities and creasing; there is bleaching to the cloth; no markings to the text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

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Patches of Sunlight
    by Lord Dunsany

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (1938)


    Seller: The Book Bin (Salem, OR, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $100.00
    Shipping: $5.50
    TOTAL Cost: $105.50

Green cloth with gilt spine titles, light edgewear, sunning to spine. Spine cocked forward slightly. Binding cracked to mull at half title, but intact, and else sound. Textblock edges foxed, with additional foxing to interior at first and last few pages. Small early bookseller's ticket at front paste down, and bookplate at FFEP. Interior else clean, text unmarked.

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Patches of Sunlight
    by DUNSANY, Lord

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock, New York (1938)


    Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $100.00
    Shipping: $5.50
    TOTAL Cost: $105.50

First American edition, published in the same year as the English edition. Frontispiece portrait of Lord Dunsany. Octavo. ix, 309pp. Blue buckram with spine paper label. A few pages have small stain in margins, opposing pages to illustrated pages have the typical foxing, spine and edges are sunned, else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with long closed creased edge tear on front panel, minor chipping to extremities, one-inch surface abrasion on rear panel (causing slight loss of printing on rear panel, where sticker carelessly removed), else quite bright.

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Patches of Sunlight
    by Dunsany, Lord

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780854681655
    Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd. (1938)


    Seller: curtis paul books, inc. (Northridge, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $124.99
    Shipping: $4.49
    TOTAL Cost: $129.48

Green cloth first edition shows light wear at points and spine ends. Light soiling. Two marks to spine. Some toning. No jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

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Patches of Sunlight.
    by DUNSANY, Lord [Edward Plunkett].

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: New York, Reynal & Hitchcock [1938]. (1938)


    Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA (Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $135.00
    Shipping: $9.99
    TOTAL Cost: $144.99

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth with gold printed spine label (offsetting to front endpapers; fading to bind). Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. 309 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed at The Waverly Press, Baltimore.

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Patches of Sunlight
    by Lord Dunsany

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: William Heinemann, London (1938)


    Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA (Decatur, GA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $150.00
    Shipping: $4.99
    TOTAL Cost: $154.99

Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 299pp. Foxing to prelims, spine just a bit sunned, else a very good hardbak bound in publisher's green cloth; lacking the jacket.

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Patches of Sunlight.
    by DUNSANY, Lord [Edward Plunkett].

    Paperback
    ISBN:
    Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd. [1938]. (1938)


    Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA (Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $195.00
    Shipping: $9.99
    TOTAL Cost: $204.99

First edition (so stated). 8vo. Original stiff light gray wrappers, printed in black (few tears, creases and stains). Very good. 299 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Advance proof copy (so printed on upper cover).

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PATCHES OF SUNLIGHT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    by DUNSANY, LORD

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: REYNAL & HITCHCOCK, INC. PUB 1938, NEW YORK NY (1938)


    Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS (BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $200.00
    Shipping: $5.50
    TOTAL Cost: $205.50

BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKINGS TO THE BINDING OR TEXT AND GILT SPINE LABLE FINE, BUT CLOTH IS SUNNED ALONG THE EDGES AND SPINE AS IS ALMOST ALWAYS ENCOUNTERED WITH THIS BOOK. D.J. IS LIGHTLY WORN AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE ENDS WITH A SMALL 1/4" TRIANGULAR CHIP AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE PANEL, SHALLOW SURFACE CHIPPING AT THE SPINE HEEL, A COUPLE OF TINY EDGE TEARS, AND IS PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY IN A BRIGHT D.J. VERY GOOD+ IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.

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Patches Of Sunlight (Autobiography, Author's Copy From His Library)
    by Plunkett, Edward John Moreton Drax, Lord Dunsany ( 1878 - 1957), with Annotatrion by Lady Dunsany Stating That This Was His Personal Copy

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Heinemann, London (1938)


    Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA (Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Fine
    Book Price: $650.00
    Shipping: $7.50
    TOTAL Cost: $657.50

Viii, 299 Pp. Green Cloth With Gilt Title, Author's Name And Publisher's Name All In Gilt. First Edition (Uk), Preceding The Us Edition. A Near Fine Book, Light Bumping At Ends Of Spine. Handwritten Annotation By Mrs. Dunsany At Top Of Front Free Endpaper "From The Library Of Lord Dunsany / B. Dunsany 1958", Obtained Directly From Her By A Collector At A Sf Convention. In A Good Dust Jacket, Worn, Small Chips And Tears, Including Loss Up To 1/2" Deep At Top Of Spine Removing Word "Lord".

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