ADVANCE COPY OF A NOVEL AS YET UNTITLED (on titlepage) PATHS OF GLORY (on backstrip)
by Cobb, Humphrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Glen Head, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York . May 1935 first edition. Viking. Hardcover. small octavo. Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering with title "Paths of Glory" on spine and "Advance copy". 265p. Bookplate of Alfred M. Hellman. Near Fine. no dj. RARE very early pre-printing of this famous novel. Pictures available on request. .
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- Bookseller
- Xerxesbooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- a97676
- Title
- ADVANCE COPY OF A NOVEL AS YET UNTITLED (on titlepage) PATHS OF GLORY (on backstrip)
- Author
- Cobb, Humphrey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- fiction collectible
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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...
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- 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....
- Bookplate
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