The Second Face
by Ayme, Marcel
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good -
- Seller
-
Madison, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, 1951. 192 pages. Red cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine. Slight wear to extremities of spine. Orange, pictorial, price-clipped jacket has light scuffing throughout and wear along the extremities including a couple of chips. Reinforced by previous owner with tape on the inside of the jacket at the edges of the spine, only visible if you take off the jacket. DJ protected in a mylar sleeve. Slight wear to edges of textblock. Tight binding and square textblock. From the dust jacket: "A miracle did happen to Raoul Cerusier, a Paris business man of no distinction or importance. To be precise, M. Cerusier's face suddenly and inexplicably changed from that of an unprepossessing middle-aged man to that of an outstandingly handsome younger man.". First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030954
- Title
- The Second Face
- Author
- Ayme, Marcel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Novel, French, Translated, Dust Jacket, Beautiful Dust Jacket
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
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- 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....
- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...