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Selected operas & plays of Gertrude Stein
by Stein, Gertrude
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0822931958
- ISBN 13
- 9780822931959
- Seller
-
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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About This Item
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970-01-01. 1St Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. University of Pittsburgh Press [Published date: 1970]. Hard cover, 325 pp. First Edition. Good in acceptable dust jacket. Black and gold cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light rubbing and bumping along edges. Binding tight. Light spotting to edges of text block. Book store price stamped on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1" tear on the top edge of the front covers and several other smaller nicks and tears and creasing along edges. Moderate overall rubbing and scuffing to jacket as well with the color rubbed off down a line in the front cover and along edges and spine. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Epilonian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20120902002
- Title
- Selected operas & plays of Gertrude Stein
- Author
- Stein, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0822931958
- ISBN 13
- 9780822931959
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Place of Publication
- Pittsburgh
- Date Published
- 1970-01-01
- Keywords
- drama, opera
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Epilonian Books
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Manhattan Beach, California
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
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