Treatise on the Gods
by H. L Mencken
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/fair
- Seller
-
Benson, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First British edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. First British edition, red cloth, gilt title. Very light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, faint staining to lower right corner of the front cover, top edge red, clean and unmarked, looks to be unread. Price clipped jacket worn, perforated / tattered flaps separated. First printing,same date, no others noted. While the jacket is the same general design as the American first the front flap and rear panel text is slightly different, the rear flap is blank, a list of Knopf publications for Spring, 1930 is printed on the verso. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Shed (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000023
- Title
- Treatise on the Gods
- Author
- H. L Mencken
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
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Benson, Vermont
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...