Palladian
by Elizabeth Taylor
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good -
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 240 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Green boards with gilt lettering to spine.
Dust jacket chipped along edges with two long tears to front panel along spine and flap. Light smudging and fading. Corners of boards bumped, soiling along bottom edge. Binding is sound. Bit of offsetting to endpapers and touch of foxing to edges of text block, but otherwise pages unmarked.
Author's second book after At Mrs. Lippincote's.
Dust jacket chipped along edges with two long tears to front panel along spine and flap. Light smudging and fading. Corners of boards bumped, soiling along bottom edge. Binding is sound. Bit of offsetting to endpapers and touch of foxing to edges of text block, but otherwise pages unmarked.
Author's second book after At Mrs. Lippincote's.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13072
- Title
- Palladian
- Author
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...