The Crime of Giovanni Venturi
by Shaw, Howard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
NY: Henry Holt & Company, 1959. 1st ed., stated. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 8vo. 256pp. White pictorial Dj. by Ben Feder over blue cloth backed in black cloth lettered in rose. Dust jacket: sunning; offsetting from smaller book; slight edgewear to extremities; shallow clipping on inner flaps, price unaffected. Boards; slight bumping to extremities. Bound material; small stains to fore-edge; offsetting and foxing to endpp. Beautiful inscription on the FFEP, "To my friend Beulah Harris, holder of the Big Glass at the Cats, dear to the heart of Giovanni, & fellow celebrator life. Tante belle cose, carrisima! Howard Shaw -Rome, 1959. In archival plastic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 367
- Title
- The Crime of Giovanni Venturi
- Author
- Shaw, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed., stated
- Publisher
- NY: Henry Holt & Company
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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About the Seller
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- VG+/VG+
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition. Very...
- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...