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MEMOIRS OF AN AESTHETE
by Acton, Harold
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- NEAR FINE/Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Methuen, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/Very Good. [8], 416 pp. Blue-tint monochrome plates and frontispiece. 12mo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner's name to FFEP, very minor bump to fore tail corner, entirely and uncommonly clean and sharp otherwise; DJ price clipped, tips worn with a bit of loss, now wrapped in mylar. Scarce in jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arches Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7515
- Title
- MEMOIRS OF AN AESTHETE
- Author
- Acton, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - NEAR FINE
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
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Terms of Sale
Arches Bookhouse
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Arches Bookhouse
Biblio member since 2022
Portland, Oregon
About Arches Bookhouse
Brick & mortar humanities bookshop in Portland, OR. Philosophy, history, theology, literature, art.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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