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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
Payment Methods Accepted
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/dings, some wear at spine ends and spot staining to spine. Gilt to type on spine and publisher's colophon blind stamped to rear board. Tanning to page ends and a few spots to ffep and half-title page, otherwise interior clean and binding strong. Jacket is unclipped(10s. 6d. net.) with chipping at corners, front flap crease, tops of panels and bottom of rear and to a much larger extent to spine ends. Front panel is mostly separated from spine, but just holding on a bottom and rear spine crease has some tiny chips. Some short tears to edges and longer tear to middle of spine. General tanning to jacket - especially at spine. Foxing to jacket mostly at flaps and some light soiling. Illustrated.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB006577RG
- Title
- Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
- Author
- Graves, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- First UK Edition/First Printing
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- 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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Albany, California
About Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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,...
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