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The Paper House
by Francoise, Mallet-Joris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0374229783
- ISBN 13
- 9780374229788
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Ptg: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1971* Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.* Binding and cover condition: Dull brown cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear & sunning to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Black & white photo-illustrated dust wrapper, red and yellow titles to face and white titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing a shelf price of $6.95. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (beige). Top edge coloured (red), somewhat faded. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks and age to page-edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 250 pp. text.* Description: The Paper House presents a delightful and amusing picture of daily life in the author?s household. She lives with her husband Jacques, Delfau the painter and her four children, a spanish maid and her infant son, a dog, a cat, a pigeon recovering from a broken wing, a blackbird that can out-scream the tv, and a four and a half year old goldfish, won by Vincent, one of her sons, in a lottery.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor age & faults in a VG protected dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5720
- Title
- The Paper House
- Author
- Francoise, Mallet-Joris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0374229783
- ISBN 13
- 9780374229788
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- USA 250
- Date Published
- 1971-01-01
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Price Clipped
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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