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iCatacrok! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny
by Graves, Robert von Ranke (1895-1985)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Better than very good/Better than very good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
203 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First English edition. In his foreword to this collection of thirty-five humorous pieces, and one other, Robert Graves tells how he came to write for Punch--to the danger, his friends said, of his stature as a serious writer. Condition: Previous owner name on front end pages, book dealer unobtrusive stamp on front paste down, corners gently bumped. Jacket corners and hinge corners rubbed and lightly chipped, small closed tear at front head hinge else better than very good in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS004193
- Title
- iCatacrok! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny
- Author
- Graves, Robert von Ranke (1895-1985)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Better than very good
- Jacket Condition
- Better than very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Octavo
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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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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