The Death of Virgil. Translated By Jean Starr Untermeyer
by BROCH, HERMANN
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1945. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 493, [1]. Quarter red cloth over black cloth boards, top edge stained black, in the rare price-intact, dust jacket, with illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to "Katherine [McKenty] Bryan With all good wishes for a splendid summer in spite of this book. Hermann Broch, June 1945". Pantheon Books' Compliments Card with the signature of Kyrill Schabert, one of the founders, loosely inserted. Lightly shaken, upper front corner slightly bumped, spine a tad faded. Still, a nice inscribed copy in the rare dust jacket. Housed in a very good custom-made clamshell box with black-stamped leather spinestrip and marbled sides.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35709
- Title
- The Death of Virgil. Translated By Jean Starr Untermeyer
- Author
- BROCH, HERMANN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
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
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Cloth
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- 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....
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