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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
by Graves, Robert
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Stated 'First Published in 1929' as per publisher's First Edition identification, but second state with relevant points. In red cloth with some softening to corners/spine ends and spots of rubbing through/fraying to same Gilt to type on spine and publisher's colophon blind stamped to rear board. Tanning to page ends and endpapers (from jacket). Interior clean and binding strong. Jacket is price-clipped with chips to spine ends and middle of same, corners and adjacent portions of panels and tears/chips to flap creases with front flap separated. General edgewear and nicks as well. Tanning to spine. Illustrated.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB006570RG
- Title
- Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
- Author
- Graves, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition/First Printing
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Literature;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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About Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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