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The Servant
by MAUGHAM, ROBIN
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. First US edition in clean and unmarked tan linen w/black titles to spine, slight wear to lower corners and spine heel; tight, solid and square binding. Former owner name on paste-down. Internals in fine condition. The British first edition is Young 2576. This is the first novel by the nephew of W. Somerset Maugham. It was the basis of the 1963 Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter movie, with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox. 62 pages. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. 1949, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026500
- Title
- The Servant
- Author
- MAUGHAM, ROBIN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Modern Classics;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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