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Explorations An Annual on Jewish Themes
by Mindlin, Murray with Chaim Bermant (Editors)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, Illinois: Quadrangle Books, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket in clear archival protective cover. Distinguished American and British writers(mostly) explore through essays, fiction, and poetry the indistinct Jewish identity, their concerns and problems and and illustration of the breadth of Jewish creativity. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on spine and on front, very clean and unmarked, bottom edges of boards lightly rubbed. Solid, tight and square. Top edge and fore edge of page block are lightly foxed. Small brownish stain (bleeding from cover) on upper, outer corner of paste-down and smaller on endpaper corner tip. Internals are Fine-clean and completely unmarked, pages lightly toned. Brown jacket with red and gold titles is clean, scuffed at spine head and heel and along bottom edge, moderate wear to extremities with a damp stain along upper edge. 305 pages. 9 x 5.75 inches. Quadrangle Books, Chicago, Illinois, 1968.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012338
- Title
- Explorations An Annual on Jewish Themes
- Author
- Mindlin, Murray with Chaim Bermant (Editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Quadrangle Books
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- JEWISH IDENTITY; JUDAISM; JEWS IN AMERICA; ISREAL; THE DIASPORA; HOLOCAUST; EASTERN EUROPEAN;
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
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