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I COME AS A THIEF (SIGNED)
by Auchincloss, Louis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395139392
- ISBN 13
- 9780395139394
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Fourth printing. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6"): pp. [6], 231. Black photographic paper dust jacket with gold and white titles. Blue-green cloth over boards, with bright gilt lettering to front and spine, with red underline device to both.
Sunning to dustjacket with edgewear and darkening to edges, some light chipping, and one small tear to bottom of back panel. $6.55 price tag to front flap. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Text block lightly age-tanned with tiny (3/8") stain to top edge. Unmarked text, tight, bright.
INSCRIBED to front free endpaper.: "May 2, 1974 / With all best wishes from the author/Sincerely/Louis Auchincloss" "The absorbing story of a man who succeeds honestly as a lawyer and a politician in the scramble of metropolitan society only to succumb to temptation at the height of his career. Tony Lowder's story is a modern study both of guilt and expiation and of the relationships between the inner and surface man to the people around him," (from front flap).
Sunning to dustjacket with edgewear and darkening to edges, some light chipping, and one small tear to bottom of back panel. $6.55 price tag to front flap. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Text block lightly age-tanned with tiny (3/8") stain to top edge. Unmarked text, tight, bright.
INSCRIBED to front free endpaper.: "May 2, 1974 / With all best wishes from the author/Sincerely/Louis Auchincloss" "The absorbing story of a man who succeeds honestly as a lawyer and a politician in the scramble of metropolitan society only to succumb to temptation at the height of his career. Tony Lowder's story is a modern study both of guilt and expiation and of the relationships between the inner and surface man to the people around him," (from front flap).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125
- Title
- I COME AS A THIEF (SIGNED)
- Author
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395139392
- ISBN 13
- 9780395139394
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1972
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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