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The Best of Dorothy Parker
by Parker, Dorothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London : Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1953. Second Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. Small Octavo. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is slightly cocked Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers browned, text has scattered foxing, but mostly clean Edges slightly browned Boards a little worn on edges and some marks on boards This is a collection of Dorothy Parker's poems and stories. Parker was a famed wit, writer and member of the Algonquin Round Table, the group of New York critics in the heyday of the 1920s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53259
- Title
- The Best of Dorothy Parker
- Author
- Parker, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Pages
- 192
- Weight
- 99.99 lbs
- Keywords
- Short Stories poetry, short stories, Dorothy Parker
- Size
- Small Octavo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
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Yungaburra, Queensland
About Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Books sourced from all over the world adorn our shelves. We carry a general range of books, some 18,000, including fiction and non-fiction in all genres. We stock collectibles, rare and antiquarian and many out-of-print books. Lonely Planet described Spencer & Murphy Booksellers as "the best bookshop in the North" and we are known as a treasure trove of books and often as Aladdin's Cave of Books.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
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