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A Little Stone: Stories [Signed]
by Paul Bowles
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: John Lehmann, 1950. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Edition in first state binding. Signed by Paul Bowles and dated Tangier - 16 / VIII / 93 without inscription on half title. Octavo (20.5cm); 222pp. Keith Vaughan-illustrated dust jacket with 9s. 6d. net price intact. Light green cloth boards with dark green spine label and gilt lettering to spine. Final two leaves uncut along majority of fore-edge. Jacket lightly rubbed with minor creasing along edges and mild rubbing to spine and rear. Boards very lightly shelfworn and sunned along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good or better copy of Bowles' first collection of stories, published a year after The Sheltering Sky.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27411
- Title
- A Little Stone: Stories [Signed]
- Author
- Paul Bowles
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Lehmann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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