The Day We Got Drunk on Cake [Signed]
by William Trevor
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First American Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on half title. Octavo; [viii], 210pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; boards in black paper and blue cloth spine with black and light blue lettering. Jacket scuffed along edges and folds with a couple tiny closed tears and rubbing at spine ends. Boards are square, with some fading along top edge and a light bump at tail. Armorial, full-color Comstock bookplate attached to front pastedown, obscured by jacket flap. Ghosts of pencil erasure to flyleaf, else interior unmarked. Binding is sound.
First American Edition of Trevor's first short story collection, which appeared from The Bodley Head in London the year prior.
First American Edition of Trevor's first short story collection, which appeared from The Bodley Head in London the year prior.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29126
- Title
- The Day We Got Drunk on Cake [Signed]
- Author
- William Trevor
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...