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Great German Short Novels and Stories: An Anthology (Modern Library #108.2)
by CERF, Bennett (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1948]. Hardcover. 15 stories by famous German writers such as Goethe, Heine, Hauptmann, Schnitzler, Brothers Grimm, Mann, Stefan Zweig and Arnold Zweig are offered in a Modern Library edition. Edited, and with introduction by Bennett Cerf. This collection was later followed by a Revised Edition, edited by Victor Lange. In blue variant jacket. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 334 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1948 (though 1933 date appears in book). ML #108.2. --- A well-preserved copy with just a bit of chafing to lower cover edge, otherwise unmarked, tightly-bound and clean. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket with brown soiling to most of front panel (looks like something was spilled) and with chips and minor chafing to extremities; otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); ix, 475 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85556
- Title
- Great German Short Novels and Stories: An Anthology (Modern Library #108.2)
- Author
- CERF, Bennett (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1948]
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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