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FAULKNERS, FORTUNES AND FLAMES
by Wilson, Jack Case
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Annandale Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing limited to 1,000 copies. Full red-orange cloth over boards with gilt titling. A history of Oxford, Mississippi, home of William Faulkner, with prolific black-and-white photographs. Pages are clean and unmarked, except for a faint stamping to first free endpaper from previous bookseller. Endpages and text block are lightly soiled and foxed. Boards are clean, with light wear to extremeties. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean with sunning to spine as well as light curling, wear and small closed tears to edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55360
- Title
- FAULKNERS, FORTUNES AND FLAMES
- Author
- Wilson, Jack Case
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Annandale Press
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Photography
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
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
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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