The Ill-Tempered Clavichord
by Perelman, S. J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/fair
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/fair. First printing. A collection of short stories by Perelman, noted for co-writing scripts for the Marx Brothers films Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay Around the World in 80 Days. Dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. Dustjacket is chipped with loss and torn along edges, fair only, book itself is tight, bright and unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Northern Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9889
- Title
- The Ill-Tempered Clavichord
- Author
- Perelman, S. J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Northern Books
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
About Great Northern Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....