The Bankrupt Bookseller
by Darling, Will. Y
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Robert Grant & Son, Ltd, 1947. Darling, Will. Y. : The Bankrupt Bookseller. Edinburgh : Robert Grant & Son, Ltd., 1947. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.25"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's burnt orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top-edge stained red. Matte color pictorial dust jacket. Plain white endpapers. [1-4], 5-351, [352] blank. Preface to the first combined edition, by Harold Forrester; Book 1 (The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller), Book 2 (The Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again). Condition notes: An excellent copy: nice color retention to boards and dust jacket; binding slight cocked, spine ends rolled; price-clipped jacket shows light wear with several small closed tears and chips. Interior tanned but unmarked. Among the chapter titles: The Bookseller's Cat; An American Lady; When I am Dead; Books no Decent Bookseller would Keep; Regret; and so on. Delightful. Originally published in the 1930s as two separate novellas. We personally inspect every book we offer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Furrowed Brow Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240129009
- Title
- The Bankrupt Bookseller
- Author
- Darling, Will. Y
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robert Grant & Son, Ltd
- Date Published
- 1947
- Weight
- 1.06 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction;
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Furrowed Brow Books was established in 2020. The bookstore's owner, Paul Purman, grew up in an old farmhouse full of books. Paul had been providing online booksales since 2008 through several popular online sales venues. In 2021 Paul was accepted as a member of the Independent Online Booksellers' Association (IOBA), and graduated from the annual Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS-Minnesota).
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Furrowed Brow Books' goal is to offer an eclectic selection, while providing specialty offerings in Eastern Orthodoxy and Byzantine civilization, theology, Christian mysticism, science fiction/fantasy (Inklings emphasis), and military history.
We're happy to discuss making an offer on a collection in one of our specialty areas.
Dealer discount of 20%; we simply ask that you reciprocate with a discount of 20%.
Thanks for stopping by!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...