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Down the Sky
by Lucas, E.V
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Green cloth, 7.5 x 5 inches, 296 pages; spine faintly sunned, several small smudges to rear board, bookseller stamp on paste-down, top edge of text block dust soiled; dust jacket worn with chips to head and tail of spine as well as creases, dust soiled, now in mylar cover. The London Saturday Review wrote of this story, "Mr. lucas squanders enough ideas to keep a less inventive author busy for weeks...A book to be read rather than reviewed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CS00223
- Title
- Down the Sky
- Author
- Lucas, E.V
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- J.B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1930
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LOVE LONDON ENGLAND SATIRE ENTERTAINMENT VINTAGE
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
Returns accepted if seller is contacted within 7 days of receipt. Buyer pays postage on returns unless merchandise received does not match original description. If paying with check or money order, payment must be received and verified before order can ship.
About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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