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The Greater Trumps
by Williams, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
South Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1954 First American Edition, First Printing (from UK sheets) of this Williams classic first published in the UK in 1932, n.d. (1954), gilt-stamped red cloth boards in price-clipped dj, unlaminated jacket shows light soil & small tears at spine tips, foxing to page block edges, marginalia (checkmarks, brackets) & occasional underlining/annotations scattered throughout in pencil & ink, name/date to front endpper, else clean tight copy; sm 8vo; 230pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
Reviews
On Dec 15 2008, Ytriem said:
I read this book fifty years ago. I remember thinking that the characters were a bit wooden and then being swept away by the story. I thought it was first rate fantasy. Very Christian, inevitably, in spite of the Taro cards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nighttown Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32289
- Title
- The Greater Trumps
- Author
- Williams, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Cudahy
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- The Greater Trumps Williams, Charles
Terms of Sale
Nighttown Books
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
Nighttown Books
Biblio member since 2012
South Pasadena, California
About Nighttown Books
Nighttown Books specializes in academic and scholarly books in most subject areas but most particularly in literature and the arts and sciences.
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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