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EASTER: ITS STORY AND MEANING
by Alan W. Watts
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good -
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Henry Shuman, 1950. First Edition First Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good -. First Edition, First Printing. Off-white cloth over boards with bronze particulars to spine and bronze decoration to front board. Top corner of plate at page 97 dog eared and pencil marking to first free end paper; otherwise, pages and plates are clean and unmarked. Text block has light foxing to top edge; glue residue to lower edge near spine. Foxing to spine, along spine edges and top edge of front board; corners bumped. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is bright with light foxing to fold of flaps and rear cover particularly around edges; creasing and chipping to edges, corners and ends of spine; dampstain to middle of spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64464
- Title
- EASTER: ITS STORY AND MEANING
- Author
- Alan W. Watts
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Henry Shuman
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Christanity
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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- 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...
- 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.,...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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