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How They Do It
by Capek, Karel
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin LTD, 1945. This posthumous book collects three long essays by the famed Czech author: "How Newspapers are Done," "How a Film is Made," and "The Making of a Play," all of which Capek knew well. Green cloth binding, with sunning to the margins leaving the spine a tan or gray; black titling on the spine. Clean text; 158 pages; illustrated by Capek's drawings. Mildly bumped, with pencil notes on the FFEP. The dustwrapper is unclipped, but has edgewear, with rubbing and small chips. In an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Karel Capek. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004725
- Title
- How They Do It
- Author
- Capek, Karel
- Illustrator
- Karel Capek
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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