A Life
by Svevo, Italo [translated by Archibald Colquhoun]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. First US Edition. Fore-edge page edges lightly foxed, front eps offset, half-title (and facing page) offset (from laid-in small newspaper photo of Italo Svevo, still present) . DJ spine darkened, front and rear panels lightly spotted here and there, small purple penned "H6" mark left of price front flap, but overall a tight solid copy with clean unmarked text. ; 8vo, light purple dec cloth, top edge pages tinted red, DJ, 398pp. .
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- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5301
- Title
- A Life
- Author
- Svevo, Italo [translated by Archibald Colquhoun]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- FICTION, FIRST, EDITION, DUST, JACKET, TRANSLATED, ITALIAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Novels;
Terms of Sale
Old Editions Inc.
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
Biblio member since 2017
North Tonawanda, New York
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- Cloth
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- Laid-in
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
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