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The Laughter and the Urn: The Life of Rex Whistler
by Whistler, Laurence
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297786032
- ISBN 13
- 9780297786030
- Seller
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Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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About This Item
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1986-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd [Published Date: 1986]. Hard cover, 321 pp. First Edition. Good in good dust jacket. Blue texture paper over boards with silver lettering on spine. Light bumping, soiling and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Light foxing (age spotting) to edges of text block and end papers. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing along edgesl. Light overall scuffing, spotting and soiling to jacket as well. Price clipped at bottom of front flap. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Includes two 16 page section with b&w photos & illustrations in the first section and color illustrations in the second section.
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- Bookseller
- Epilonian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20140114001
- Title
- The Laughter and the Urn: The Life of Rex Whistler
- Author
- Whistler, Laurence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0297786032
- ISBN 13
- 9780297786030
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986-01-01
- Keywords
- Art, Biography
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- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- 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
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