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THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON
by Patrick, John 01b
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE book, VG DJ. DJ with 2" closed tear, others @ 1/2" & less.
- Seller
-
Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Putnam. FINE book, VG DJ. DJ with 2" closed tear, others @ 1/2" & less.. c1954. 1st edition. Hardcover. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Very tight. Black cloth with red spine lettering. Clean, bright DJ with $3.00 price. 8"x5.5"188pp . Rear cover with small rubbed spot, book else flawless. Book stays closed when stood on its spine, a sign of having been read with care, if at all. All three text block edges white as new. No aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. DJ spine sunned a bit. 1952 cp date but DJ front panel & flap refer to the 1954 Pulitzer Prize award. .
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Modern Library
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002495
- Title
- THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON
- Author
- Patrick, John 01b
- Illustrator
- Photo frontis in b/w.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE book, VG DJ. DJ with 2" closed tear, others @ 1/2" & less.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- c1954
- Keywords
- FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Very tight. Black cloth with red spine, lettering. Clean, bright DJ with $3.00 price. 8"x5.5"188pp
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- play;
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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