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A Hard Winter
by Queneau, Raymond
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Lehmann, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Vaughan. First English edition translated by Betty Asquith. 8vo, cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Pictorial dust jacket generally good with some old repairs and in protective cover. Jacket design by Keith Vaughan. 128pp. Nice and clean inside, slightly cocked. A novel set in the French port of Le Havre in the winter of 1916
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2547
- Title
- A Hard Winter
- Author
- Queneau, Raymond
- Illustrator
- Vaughan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- John Lehmann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- first world war, french novelist, 20th century literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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