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THE FANCY DRESS PARTY
by Alberto Moravia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good
- Seller
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Red cloth spine with gray polished cloth boards, black lettering on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; one corner bumped, no edge wear, very clean. Binding tight, text very clean with endpapers foxed and PO's name on ffep. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not price-clipped ($3.00) slight edge wear and chipping, spine sunned, front very clean, back mildly soiled. In new Mylar wrapper. Fiction. RGR.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7454
- Title
- THE FANCY DRESS PARTY
- Author
- Alberto Moravia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- NY: Farrar, Straus and Young
- Date Published
- 1952
Terms of Sale
Andre Strong Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
Biblio member since 2008
Blue Hill, Maine
About Andre Strong Bookseller
Andre Strong Bookseller is located in Blue Hill, on the coast of Maine. We offer 22,000 books for sale online, and work from an office and rare book room, with a warehouse adjacent. We carry a wide selection of fine books on every subject, with specialization in art, architecture, photography, nautical, Maine and fiction. We do not have an open shop - if you'd like to visit, please arrange an appointment.
Glossary
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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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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