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The Cornerstone
by Oldenbourg, Zoe
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 1955. First edition, BOMC. HC w DJ. PC VG/Good. Blue quarter cloth, gilt spine titling & decorations in red field, light edgewear, some sunning to edges, FO plate to FFEP, binding sound, unmarked. Unclipped DJ (BOMC) edgeworn w nicks/chips, sun dulling to spine, some foxing, now in Brodart. Translated from the French by Edward Hyams. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.
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Details
- Seller
- Refuge Books: Used & Rare
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 230475
- Title
- The Cornerstone
- Author
- Oldenbourg, Zoe
- Format/Binding
- HC w DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, BOMC
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- 482
Terms of Sale
Refuge Books: Used & Rare
30-day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery, if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Refuge Books: Used & Rare
Biblio member since 2018
Nashville, Tennessee
About Refuge Books: Used & Rare
Refuge Books: Used & Rare. Buying and selling books in historic east Nashville, TN since 2012. Specializing in history, biography, Civil War, books on books, theology, Louisiana, the Inklings, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, Wendell Berry, Flannery O'Connor, George Macdonald, Thomas Mann, Madeleine L'Engle, and Frederick Buechner. We welcome any and all inquiries.Instagram: @refugebooks
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- PC
- Partially chipped (dustjacket)
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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