The Journal of Albion Moonlight.
by Patchen, Kenneth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Mount Vernon: Self-Published At the Walpole Printing Office.. Fine with no dust jacket. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition limited to 295 numbered copies after a signed issue of 50 copies. This is copy #21 from the library of author Anita Loos with her lovely color pictorial bookplate a-fixed to front paste-down. Fine in black buckram. A distinctive book sticker from Stanley Roses' Satyr Bookshop a-fixed to rear paste-down. Rose's shop was the inspiration for Geiger's Bookstore in Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep." A remarkably well preserved association copy in this scarce issue. ; 6 1/2" x 9 1/2"; 313 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3114795
- Title
- The Journal of Albion Moonlight.
- Author
- Patchen, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Self-Published At the Walpole Printing Office.
- Place of Publication
- Mount Vernon
- Date Published
- 1941
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About the Seller
Waverley Books
Biblio member since 2005
Santa Monica, California
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...