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Desert Island Decameron
by Smith, H. Allen
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Woodlawn, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York, U. S. A.: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hershfield, Leo. Stated First Edition. The Book Is Bound In Gray Cloth Over Boards With Burgundy Lettering On The Spine. The Book Has An Area At The Upper Front Corner Where The Jacket Attached And Pulled On The Cover. Gift Inscription On The Ffep. Reading Smudge To The Page Edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046514
- Title
- Desert Island Decameron
- Author
- Smith, H. Allen
- Illustrator
- Hershfield, Leo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York, U. S. A.
- Date Published
- 1945
- Pages
- 406
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Smith, H. Allen - (Harry Allen), - 1907-1976 - Travel - Illinois.; Humor. Essays, General
Terms of Sale
Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
Biblio member since 2013
Woodlawn, Illinois
About Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
I have a small inventory of about 23,000 titles. I sell from my own property and only on-line. I started selling on line in 1999. This is my Fourth year with Biblio.
Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- 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"...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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