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The Downs So Free: Available Copies
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The Downs So Free by Frank Baker
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Andrew Dakers Limited (1948)
Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $13.04
Shipping: $6.25
TOTAL Cost: $19.29
1948. First Edition. 366 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Notable cracking to hinges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Binding is shaky.
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The Downs So Free by Frank Baker
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Andrew Dakers (1948)
Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $13.04
Shipping: $6.25
TOTAL Cost: $19.29
1948. First Edition. 366 pages. No dust jacket. Cream cloth covered boards. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Some page corners folded. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional mild marks and staining.
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The Downs so Free by Frank Baker
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Andrew Dakers (1948)
Seller: Milbury Books (New Romney, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $23.97
Shipping: $27.87
TOTAL Cost: $51.84
A Very Good 1st Edition copy (1948) in a Fair unclipped dust jacket which has some chips & loss but remains very presentable in a mylar wrap. The book itself has clean text (browning to text block edges), no inscriptions or labels, binding firm, and textured cloth boards in pleasing condition. Please see five pictures attached for a closer look.
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THE DOWNS SO FREE by BAKER, Frank.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Andrew Dakers, London, (1948)
Seller: Burwood Books (Wickham Market, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $80.12
Shipping: $18.15
TOTAL Cost: $98.27
First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp.366. Fiction. Novel set against the backdrop of Gangallow Downs-a place of peace and spiritual fortitude:"Amanda Evenlode, spinster, turns to the Quaker mystics.Olive Bardsley, remote, rich, divorced, practises charity as a business.Captain Mike Moody strides into amateur Yoga and sings his way with wheelbarrow and strong drink to an anchorite's cell in the cliffs." Original publisher's cloth binding in pale yellow with silver lettering at spine. /Francis Baker (1908-1982) was a British author of novels and short stories, mainly on fantastic or supernatural themes. He was also an actor, musician and television scriptwriter. Very good indeed in about very good dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly faded and nicked at spine.
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