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LANCES DOWN. Between the Fires in Moscow
by Boleslavska, Richard, and Helen Woodward
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1932. first edition. hardcover. Good. Octavo, maroon cloth covers with gilt titles, 333 pages. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Spine titles dulled; wear at head of spine. No dust jacket. 092715B
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000020287
- Title
- LANCES DOWN. Between the Fires in Moscow
- Author
- Boleslavska, Richard, and Helen Woodward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1932
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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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
Alkahest Books
Biblio member since 2012
Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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