The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
by Amado, Jorge
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf. Used - Very Good. 1965. Alfred A. Knopf. Cloth, dj, octavo, 97 pp, some illustrations. Light shelf wear to jacket, with a few very small chips at edges. Bookplate on front pastedown. A few spots of foxing to text block, but pages are clean and bright. Tight binding. Very Good. (Subject: Modern First.)
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR22135
- Title
- The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
- Author
- Amado, Jorge
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
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Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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Chicago, Illinois
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...