Transparent Things
by NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0070457344
- ISBN 13
- 9780070457348
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0070457344 . An ex-library copy of the short novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). This is the story of Hugh Person, an American who visits a town in Switzerland and returns there three more times. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with cover titling in blind, spine titling in yellow. Silver jacket features striking Halsman photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- Signs of ownership by an Illinois community college library consist of rubberstampings, tape removal evidence to endpapers and verso of jacket, and torn-out front free endpaper, otherwise a sound, stable copy. Unclipped jacket with a couple of small tears to edges, else intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; Ex-Library; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (8), 104 pages .
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Details
- Seller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 87682
- Title
- Transparent Things
- Author
- NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0070457344
- ISBN 13
- 9780070457348
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- 0070457344
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About the Seller
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Littleton, Colorado
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Glossary
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.