The Metamorphosis of the Gods
by Malraux, Andre
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Small thick quarto, burgundy red cloth covered boards with gilt title and gilt spine titles. 400 pp. plus colophon. In dust jacket and slipcase. Generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white reproductions, many full page. A very clean, tight, unblemished volume with sparkling gilt and very fresh cloth. Discreet short gift inscription on ffep, else fine. In a very tight, bright, crisp, sharp dust jacket with very slight rubbing at corner tips, else fine. All housed in the original grey paper covered card slipcase with printed illustrated pasted on title label, with minor fading and slight superficial rubbing. Near fine in near fine dust jacket and slipcase. A great copy with very minor flaws..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 08084
- Title
- The Metamorphosis of the Gods
- Author
- Malraux, Andre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1960
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- History;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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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