Editore: Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1951
Da: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Thus. HBDJ, 1951. Stated 1ST Edition THUS, VG/GOOD, AS-IS. Green Tweed cloth Hardcover Titled & decorated in Gold Gilt on Spine Cvr. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD. Apart from the initials FR on the front endpaper, an unmarked hardback in a priceclipped dustjacket which is chipped by up to ½" at the spine ends & corners & edges of DJ. Dustjacket Protected Clear Mylar. Back DJ light wear FOX small edge chips Lists thru Best Nature Stories , Interior nice tight light wear , Fox. 256 pgs, 5 1/4 X 7 1/2 in. A classic book for bibliophiles, first published in 1919, here reprinted in a new edition. .What true bookworm does not Love to Browse around an old-Fashioned bookshop such as the Parnassus at Home, which has a warm & comfortable Obscurity, a kind of Drowsy dusk, stabbed here & there by Bright cones of Yellow Light from green shaded Electrics & where the Air was heavy with the delightful Fragrance of mellowed Paper & Leather surcharged with a strong bouquet of Tobacco ? & what better guide could there be than its Proprietor , Roger Mifflin.This is setting for charming Romance & Intriging Mystery. This is a great classic on books and book collecting Probably the most famous bookselling novel to be written, The Haunted Bookshop's rollicking plot provides ample doses of diversion, while allowin.