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Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood & Afterthoughts: Pieces on Writing
by Bowen, Elizabeth
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
-
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/good. xi, [1], 272, [3] p.; 21 cm. Green cloth with gilt spine title and blind-stamped author's initials on front cover. Top page edges red. Dust jacket with photograph of the author on the back section; in mylar cover. Stated First Edition. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Book is in Very Good Condition: spine very slightly faded; tail of spine just starting to fray; slightly cocked; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: spine, top edge, and fore-edges of flaps are browned; edges are rubbed; loss at ends of spine; closed 1-cm. tear from top edge of spine; otherwise, clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009113
- Title
- Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood & Afterthoughts: Pieces on Writing
- Author
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women Writers;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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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