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ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE
by Dylan Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Putnam , 1955. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 5 x 7 in. 115 pp. Black cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Japanese book store label on front pastedown. Condition is VERY GOOD ; almost no shelf wear, covers extremely clean and fresh. Ex-private library with stamps on front and rear pastedowns, paper pocket on ffep. Binding tight. Ffep has the uper corner torn off. Text is bright and unmarked with light foxing to the sides of the text block. DJ is VERY GOOD ; price-clipped, extremely clean and bright with mild edge wear and very small open tear at spine tail. Fiction. RGR.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15578
- Title
- ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE
- Author
- Dylan Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
Biblio member since 2008
Blue Hill, Maine
About Andre Strong Bookseller
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
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