London: MacMillan and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. "Any collection of critical essays is rather like a diary. Over the years, the critic tries to clarify and express his view of the various books, authors, and topics that have, for one reason or another, compelled his attention. Finally the day comes when he gathers up a sheaf of those attempts and looks through them..." (Preface). Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Text block is slightly pulled away from spine head, normal edge wear, bumps on top corners and spine ends, small bumps on bottom corners, light soiling and tanning to edges of pages; text is clean. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has normal shelf and edge wear, tiny tears on corners and spine ends, small creases on spine ends, tanned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages .

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Bookseller: Good Books In The Woods (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3229
Title: Preliminary Essays
Author: Wain, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Publisher: MacMillan and Company
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1957

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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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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....
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...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.