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The Celebrated Library of Major J.R. Abbey- The Third Portion
£20.00
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Published by: Sotheby & Co. 1967.
250 x 190mm, col’d frontis, title, vii, 233p, Indexes xii. 48 leaves of photographic plates, many full page images of bindings of outstanding quality, some in colour. Prices realalised and buyers names, laid in. Plain end-leaves. Green paper over boards, lettered in black.
A very clean copy. No marks of past ownership, save for a thin strip of residue of a sticky tape to the gutter of the front end-leaf and the spine of the prices realised booklet.
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