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Period of Adjustment: High Point Over A Cavern
by Williams, Tennessee
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1960. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: New Directions, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition. Clean rust brown cloth boards with bright white lettering on spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 120 pgs. Author bibliography opposite title page (first edition, first printing point). Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has several short closed edge tears, very shallow chipping at top spine edge (approx. 1/16"). Dustjacket design by Harold Bruder. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A play set in a bungalow of a large Southern U.S. city on a snowy Christmas Eve which tells of the marital troubles of two couples. Serious aspects to the plot, with plenty of laughs. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4". Play..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016930
- Title
- Period of Adjustment: High Point Over A Cavern
- Author
- Williams, Tennessee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- COMEDY PLAY THEATRE THEATER TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre/plays; Humor; Relationships;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
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