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Told By An Idiot
by Macaulay, Rose
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Short tear to cloth at crown; toning to endsheets from dust jacket flaps, else fine in a bright dust jacket with a bit of chippi
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. First American edition. Short tear to cloth at crown; toning to endsheets from dust jacket flaps, else fine in a bright dust jacket with a bit of chipping to the top of the spine and edges and a closed tear to the rear panel.. 8vo, 340pp; blue cloth with printed spine label. An appealing copy of one of Macaulay's best known works.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Locus Solus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 205012
- Title
- Told By An Idiot
- Author
- Macaulay, Rose
- Book Condition
- Used - Short tear to cloth at crown; toning to endsheets from dust jacket flaps, else fine in a bright dust jacket with a bit of chippi
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
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About the Seller
Locus Solus Rare Books
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Los Angeles, California
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Spine
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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