John Brown's Body
by Benet, Stephen Vincent
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/good
- Seller
-
Pittsburg, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc, 1980. Cloth. Very good/good. Moser, Barry. 4to, pp. [8], v-xv, [5], 3-360, [6]. Mauve cloth-covered boards with plum spine and gilt accents; Orange title sticker on front and a brown ribbon market. Dust jacket with sunned spine and a little sticker residue. Cloth-covered slipcase with minor fading at edges. Very good condition. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside of the United States. Introduction by Archibald MacLeish. Original wood engravings by Barry Moser.
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Details
- Seller
- Wayside Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 10480
- Title
- John Brown's Body
- Author
- Benet, Stephen Vincent
- Illustrator
- Moser, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
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- Art & Illustrated Books;
Terms of Sale
Wayside 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.
Most books are mailed in cardboard boxes, with protection for the book and padding to avoid damage en route. Some paperback books shipped within the US may be mailed in bubble envelopes.
Most books are mailed in cardboard boxes, with protection for the book and padding to avoid damage en route. Some paperback books shipped within the US may be mailed in bubble envelopes.
About the Seller
Wayside Books
Biblio member since 2021
Pittsburg, Kansas
About Wayside Books
Wayside Books LLC is owned by Dianne and Steven Cox, currently operating their online store in Southeast Kansas. We have honed our rare book skills at the Rare Books School at the University of Virginia and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar. We sell modern first editions and collectible fiction, as well as children's books and non-fiction books, with an emphasis on history, politics, social sciences, and the arts.
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...