The Gay and Melancholy Flux
by William Saroyan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Greey paper titles with titles in different colours, faded along the spine, a little chipped along edges, price clipped, now in clear protective removable cover. Book bound in cream cloth with titles in black and red on the spine, clean bright and square. Hinge and text block firm, pages smooth and clean, very lightly age-toned, no spotting, no inscriptions. Upper closed page edge dyed pink. A very neat and tidy copy of this book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- David's Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037167
- Title
- The Gay and Melancholy Flux
- Author
- William Saroyan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Terms of Sale
David's Bookshop
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
David's Bookshop
Biblio member since 2022
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
About David's Bookshop
Open since 1963, David's Bookshop & Music Shop are located in two linked shops in Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City, only a few minutes walk from Morrisons supermarket, the railway station and Letchworth Shopping Centre. There is ample parking nearby. As the world's first Garden City, Letchworth has much to offer visitors. We stock books and guides about Letchworth's past and present. At the Bookshop you will find a comprehensive range of fiction, non-fiction, text books, maps and best-sellers in stock. Travellers, walkers, computer users and local historians are especially well catered for. We can supply any book in print and there are always many titles on special offer. The book collector - or second-hand browser - can check out a growing selection of our 15,000 second-hand and antiquarian books available for purchase through the internet. If you have good quality books to sell - bring them in for a quick appraisal and a fair offer. You can rely upon our staff's advice who really know about books. Contact us online at www.davids-bookshops.co.uk.
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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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...