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The Comic Style of P. G. Wodehouse
by Hall, Robert A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0208014098
- ISBN 13
- 9780208014092
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Archon Books, Shoe String Press. Used - Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. x & 147 pp. Some shelf wear and scuffing to dust jacket, slight toning to spine. Mild foxing to edges of text block. Bookplate to front pastedown. Creasing to fold-out chart. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Literary Criticism).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C64039
- Title
- The Comic Style of P. G. Wodehouse
- Author
- Hall, Robert A
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0208014098
- ISBN 13
- 9780208014092
- Publisher
- Archon Books, Shoe String Press
- Place of Publication
- Hamden, Ct
- This edition first published
- 1974-03
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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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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