Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1947. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, black-framed gilt spine titles, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, 312 pp. Very good book, front pastedown ex libris, cloth spine ends and board edges lightly faded; fair dust jacket, spine ends chipped, spine center creased and torn, edges chipped with close tears, lightly soiled covers, jacket split in two down center crease. Cover illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer.

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Bookseller: Better Read Than Dead (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1652
Title: Lions and Shadows
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Illustrator: Cover illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer
Format/Binding: Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, black-framed gilt spine titles, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, 312 pp
Book Condition: Used - Very good book, front pastedown ex libris, cloth spine ends and board edges lightly faded; fair dust jacket, spine ends chipped,
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions
Place of Publication: Norfolk, CT
Date Published: 1947
Keywords: Christopher Isherwood, New Directions, Lions and Shadows

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Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
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....
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.