Shandygaff
by MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good. Spine slightly cocked, binding a touch shaken.
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Spine slightly cocked, binding a touch shaken.. 12mo. 5 x 7.625 in. xii, 326, [2] pp. Orig. dark blue ribbed cloth, titles in gilt. Signed by Christopher Morley on front flyleaf.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 725
- Title
- Shandygaff
- Author
- MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. Spine slightly cocked, binding a touch shaken.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1918
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
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- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...