Dance of the Quick and the Dead: an Entertainment of the Imagination
by Sitwell, Sacheverell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. Red cloth with slight edgewear and slightly bumped spine ends. Jacket in archival plastic protector has fading along spine and edges, and moderate creasing, rubbing and chipping. Flaps are not clipped. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed. Illustrated with b/w plates. No ownership marks, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 413 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10117
- Title
- Dance of the Quick and the Dead: an Entertainment of the Imagination
- Author
- Sitwell, Sacheverell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art / History;
Terms of Sale
Old Editions Inc.
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
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- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
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