The End of a World
by Anet, Claude
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good - / Good +
- Seller
-
Madison, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. 268 pages. Beautiful yellow cloth boards with green and black pattern. Minor wear to extremities. Dust jacket has a faded spine and wear and tear to the extremities. Significant one inch L-shaped tear at top of spine, but this is barely visible as the jacket is protected in a mylar sleeve. Green top edge of textblock. Borzoi books logo repeated to form the endpapers. Tight binding and square textblock. Very light toning to clean, unmarked pages. Includes several illustrations. Deckled edges. "In this romance, the author of Ariane records the last cycle in the history of a community of the Cro-Magnon period." . First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good - / Good +. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030956
- Title
- The End of a World
- Author
- Anet, Claude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good - / Good +
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Romance, Prehistory, Early History, Novel, Fiction, Beautiful Dust Jacket, Second Basement
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...