Letters from Holland
by Capek, Karel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (Minus)/Very Good (Minus)
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1933. The third volume of witty travel writing from the great Czech author of "War with the Newts." The First Edition was published in February 1933; this is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the Second Impression, from April of the same year. Yellow cloth binding with red titling on the spine. Clean text; 104 pages; with decorations by the author. Translation from the original Czech by Paul Selver. Unfortunately, the yellow binding is not forgiving to soil, so while a sound volume, it presents in a rather grubby fashion. The dustwrapper is complete, unclipped, but suffers in the same way, and with chipping mainly along the top margins. In an archival plastic protector.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good (Minus)/Very Good (Minus). Illus. by Karel Capek. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004973
- Title
- Letters from Holland
- Author
- Capek, Karel
- Illustrator
- Karel Capek
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (Minus)
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- 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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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...