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Diamond Lil
by Mae West
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Templeton, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macaulay, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Macaulay, 1932, New York. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. First printing confirmed by McBride. Inscribed and signed by Mae West on the front free endpaper. The book is unmarked throughout but has a bit of tanning/staining on endpapers. Tips are just slightly rubbed. Edges show some shelfwear but no frey. Pages just slightly tanned. Text block edges a little dusty. has minor foxing. Else, spine is tight, boards rigid and tips are pointed. Included is a facsimile dust jacket correct for this first edition. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Winding Road Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000613
- Title
- Diamond Lil
- Author
- Mae West
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macaulay
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Romance Women's Rights Mae West
Terms of Sale
Winding Road Books
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
Winding Road Books
Biblio member since 2019
Templeton, California
About Winding Road Books
Specialize in Psychology, First Editions, Speculative Fiction
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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....
- 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....
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