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Painted Veils
by Huneker, James
- Used
- good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. Limited Edition / First Edition. Cloth. Good. Limited edition of Painted Veils by James Huneker.. Octavo, [11], 294pp, [4]. Tan cloth, marbled boards, title printed on spine. Wear to edges, bumped corners, some loss of marbled paper on front cover. Gray endpapers, previous bookshop sticker on rear panel. Top edge dyed blue. In deluxe red leather pull-off case, near fine, with gilt title, raised bands, lined in felt. From a signed limited edition of 1200 copies, this being number 396, signed by the author.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1009
- Title
- Painted Veils
- Author
- Huneker, James
- Illustrator
- Limited edition of Painted Veils by James Huneker.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition / First Edition
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- first edition Painted Veils, first edition James Huneker, signed book James Huneker, Ziegfeld follies, Madame Yna Majeska, opera, soprano.
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About the Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
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