Lucy Crown
by Shaw, Irwin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. "In his third novel, the author of The Young Lions probes relentlessly yet compassionately into the life history of a woman in the pursuit of love." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Spine is skewed and loose, minor edge wear, small bump on spine head, very shallow dents on head edges of boards near spine, faint offsetting on page opposite of the full title page, light soiling on edges of pages; overall, pages remain clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has normal edge and shelf wear, creases on head and tail edges of front cover, small creases and tiny tears on spine ends, 1-inch tear on bottom right corner of front cover, tanned on interior of jacket, dirty on edges of back flap, price-clipped, tape on interior of jacket at stress points. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61406
- Title
- Lucy Crown
- Author
- Shaw, Irwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
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- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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