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Sunset Gun: Poems
by Parker, Dorothy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Another collection of "58 sparkling pieces of verse by America's most famous wit.," her second book, in 75 pages. A true FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1928, this hardcover 12mo (5" x 7.5') has a glossy black cloth wrapped spine, titled in gilt, with textured tan/black batik-like paper over the remaining boards. Condition is Near Fine: completely clean, binding straight & strong, pages very modestly tanned, heavier to edges. NO writing/underlining/highlighting; not ex-lib. Only flaw is very mild bumping to heel of spine & rubbing to tips of lower corners down to underlying boards. NO DJ. Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Pacific time (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021343
- Title
- Sunset Gun: Poems
- Author
- Parker, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- HUMOR WIT WOMEN FEMALE POET POETRY POEM VERSE AMERICAN WRITER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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