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HOPE OF HEAVEN
by O'Hara, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1938). First edition. Story of a screen-writer in his mid-30s in love with a woman in her 20s only passingly interested in him. 8vo glossy black cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Slight darkening of endpapers and small bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown; boards are crisp and bright but show evidence of old damp staining along front edges, therefore very good only. In very good or better dust jacket with flattenend creasing and 2 fairly long tears (internally repaired with archival tape)--still, bright and clean. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations about the text on rear endpaper and corresponding passages marked in pencil in margins.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55555
- Title
- HOPE OF HEAVEN
- Author
- O'Hara, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1938)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quill & Brush
Biblio member since 2007
Middletown, Maryland
About Quill & Brush
Quill & Brush was established in 1976 by Allen & Patricia Ahearn, the authors of the well-respected reference for booksellers and collectors, Collected Books: The Guide to Identification and Values.At present the Quill & Brush is run by the Ahearns' eldest daughter, Beth Fisher. Allen is semi-retired but continues to buy, sell, and perform professional appraisals.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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