Shadows on the Rock Signed, Limited Edition
by Willa Cather
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable Jacket
- Seller
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Copake, New York, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. 88vo. #47 of 619 First Edition copies signed by the author. Marbled boards with gilt-stamped leather laabel on spine, are iexcellent. Text block is intact, binding is very tight,, pages on Croxley hand made paperr are clean and bright showing only a touch of light foxing on endpapers as well as title page. Deckled edges and gilt top edge show foxing. Original jacket is present with edgewear and a tear atop spine. It is now protected in mylar. Will be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking and insurance. Photos available upon request..
Synopsis
This tale was published in 1931. Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock tells the tale of a young girl, her widower father, and their friends, all of them working to make a life for themselves in Quebec in 1697.
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- Bookseller
- Dogtales
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035431
- Title
- Shadows on the Rock Signed, Limited Edition
- Author
- Willa Cather
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable Jacket
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 88vo
- Keywords
- Literature
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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