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The Ring is Closed
by Hamsun, Knut and Eugene Gay-Tifft(Translator)
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor/N/A
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1937. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Poor/N/A. In yellow cloth with brown type and tinted top page ends. A fair amount of fraying at spine ends, bottoms of boards and corners. Soling to spine and boards. An ex-library copy with dj flaps affixed to pastedowns, stamps to ffep and rfep and hinges mostly split with tape residue to front hinge and title page which is trimmed down. Text block tanned.
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- Seller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- LPB007512KH
- Title
- The Ring is Closed
- Author
- Hamsun, Knut and Eugene Gay-Tifft(Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Edition
- First US Edition/First Printing
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Bookseller catalogs
- Scandinavian Literature;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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Albany, California
About Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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