Beast and Super-Beasts
by Saki [Munro, H.H.]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good-
- Seller
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1928 Blue cloth; stamped emblem of double-lotus flower with "SAKI" in center on front cover. Paper spine label. First published 1914; Collected Edition, of which this is the second reprint, was first published 1926. A volume in "The Works of 'Saki" [H.H.Munro] by this publisher. Six-page introduction by H.W. Nevinson. Lower cover corner bumped with light corresponding creases to first few pages of text block and crease to lower front dj corner. Faint rubbing to spine tips. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn in a clean and intact but chipped dust jacket. Both lower and upper jacket spine tips have 1/4" x 1"chips; horizontal closed tear at mid-point of spine; tiny closed tears to upper front and lower rear jacket panels.
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- Bookseller
- The Curiosity Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14456
- Title
- Beast and Super-Beasts
- Author
- Saki [Munro, H.H.]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
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- Reprint
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- Jacket
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- Spine Label
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....