The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht
by Ben Hecht
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Crown Publishers, USA, 1945. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Edgewear to boards, cardboard slightly exposed around spine board. Reprint. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding tight, spine faded. Prior Bookseller sticker or stamp. Edges foxed and browned. Bumping to board corners..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31876
- Title
- The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht
- Author
- Ben Hecht
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Fiction; Fiction::General & Literary Fiction; Ben Hecht The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht
Terms of Sale
Shiny Owl Books
We do not Drop Ship Internationally. Drop Ships within Australia will attract a $5 surcharge
About the Seller
Shiny Owl Books
Biblio member since 2006
Mona Vale, New South Wales
About Shiny Owl Books
Formerly known as Retriever Books, Dee Why we now have a bookshop in Mona Vale further up the peninsula on the Northern Beaches of SydneyOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 10.15 to 5Saturday 9.30 to 4.30Sunday & Monday closedOpen every day except New Year's Day, Australia Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Mother's Day, Christmas Day and Boxing DayWe have over fifty categories of books in-store, we appear to have many titles inCurrently only 8000 books are listed here. Please use the offline search service link to forward us a book title you require or just send an email.Not all online titles are held in the shop, so contact us prior to coming in to view particular titles.Up to 8 hour free parking across the road in the council car park
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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