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The Mountain Tavern and other stories
by Liam O'Flaherty
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First Edition, Second Issue. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 20 x 13.5 cm. 12mo. 288pp. Green cloth in dust jacket. Thriller and occult novelist Dennis Wheatley association copy with his ornate bookplate on front free endpaper. Bookplate was designed by Frank C Papé. Looks to be a first edition, second issue without the author's book title list opposite the title page and the brighter green cloth. Jacket flaps are clipped at all four corner,s original price of 7s. 6d. net still present. Tiny closed tears to head of jacket spine. Light toning to free endpapers. Light fading to edges of boards. Light foxing to foredges. Boards are faded. Nice copy. George Jefferson C5.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63195
- Title
- The Mountain Tavern and other stories
- Author
- Liam O'Flaherty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Issue
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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