Discretions & Indiscretions
Author:
Lady DUFF GORDON
Title:
Discretions & Indiscretions
Publisher:
Jarrolds Publishers (London) Limited 1932
Description:
FIRST EDITION; SCARCE; Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece photo portrait, 288pp, illus photo plates, VG (heavy sun-fading to boards & spine, plus light rubbing & soiling, light cracking to gutters - binding becoming delicate in parts & boards v. slightly shaky, but still fairly sturdy overall, light foxing to pages throughout, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to eps, bookseller's label to rear pastedown)
Keywords:
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