The Reprint Society, London, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 1955. 494 pages. Gray cloth with navy and gilt spine title plate. Cloth shows very minor rubbing to the edges and corners. White mark to bottom edge front cover. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket covered in archival Mylar, fair condition, shows a 3-4" closed tear to back inner wrap hinge and 1/2" closed tear to spine foot. Toning and light rubbing to edges. Page edges show light foxing; interior else clean and unmarked.

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Bookseller: The Book Bin (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BBS-2002098
Title: The Best of Faulkner: Chosen by the Author (1955)
Author: Faulkner, William
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Reprint Society, London
Date Published: 1955
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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....
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...