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KATE JAVENS: AMERICAN BEASTS
by Kate Javens
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Blanden Art Museum, 2007. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good +/Very Good. First edition of 600 printed in 2007. Brown cloth over boards with dark brown particulars to spine and front board. Pages and art are clean, bright and unmarked. Text block has dampstains to lower edge and one dampstain to fore edge; top edge is clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and bright with very light rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight, spine is slightly cocked. Dust jacket is clean and bright with creasing and ribbing to edges, corners and ends of spine; closed tear to top edge of rear cover. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64642
- Title
- KATE JAVENS: AMERICAN BEASTS
- Author
- Kate Javens
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Blanden Art Museum
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Art
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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