The Importance of Living
by Lin Yutang
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
-
Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
SIGNED: first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (John Day/Reynal and Hitchcock, 1937) Signed by Lin Yutang on the front free end paper; no prior owner marks; little age tone; tight bind; clean cloth cover bright gilt titling; short tear to cloth at spine head; dj edge wear: few short tears, little rubbing, shallow chip at spine head; flap price present dsk
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Details
- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio9095849
- Title
- The Importance of Living
- Author
- Lin Yutang
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- John Day Reynal and Hitchcock
- Date Published
- 1937
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...