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The American Way of Death
by Mitford, Jessica
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/good
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson, 1963. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Good/good. black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 238 pp second printing dj worn on the edges covers lightly worn spine slightly cocked
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94671
- Title
- The American Way of Death
- Author
- Mitford, Jessica
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Humor, Sociology funeral burial
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- History;
Terms of Sale
San Francisco Book Company
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About the Seller
San Francisco Book Company
Biblio member since 2008
Paris
About San Francisco Book Company
A general used English language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris
Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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