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PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER
by Porter, Katherine Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 264 pages. In Good condition with Poor dust jacket. Gray and black spine with Gray and black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has interior flaps detached, chipping to edges, sunning to spine, and tearing to front joint. Boards have rubbing to corners and edges and cocking to spine. Textblock has light age toning, writing in pen on front free endpaper, and splitting to rear pastedown. Shelved Case 6. 1371991. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Synopsis
First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author’s reputation as a master of short fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1371991
- Title
- PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER
- Author
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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...
- 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 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...
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