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La Chauve-Souris Dorée/The Gilded Bat
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0396076882
- ISBN 13
- 9780396076889
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1979. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good+/Near Fine. Gorey, Edward. First Hardcover Reprint, First Printing, from 1979 of this tribute to Edward Gorey's love of the dance, which originally appeared in serial form in "Ballet Review" & in hardcover from Simon & Schuster in 1966 (please see our listing # 020983 for that true first edition). With decorative paper over boards, whit small square hardcover 12mo is in Good+ condition: very clean & bright, but downgraded due to significant rubbing to both top & bottom edges of both boards. Else, binding strong & straight, pages white, with light foxing to top outside edges & all endpapers only. The price-clipped DJ is Near Fine, with mild rubbing to extremities; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time) ship same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023607
- Title
- La Chauve-Souris Dorée/The Gilded Bat
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Illustrator
- Gorey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0396076882
- ISBN 13
- 9780396076889
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATOR HUMOR MACABRE ART BALLET DANCE DRAWING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Comic Art/Cartoons/Humor/Animation/Graphic Novels; Performing Arts: Theater/Dance/Music & Musicians; Illustrated Books/Illustrators / Edward Gorey;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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