A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES Containing Favorites of the Past 100 Years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway with Biographical Sketches
by Bernardine Kielty And Charles Skaggs
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Delaware, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster. Good with no Dust Jacket. 1947. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 850 pages; Dark red hardcovers with gilt lettering on front that is faded and rubbed. Lettering on spine is mostly faded. Corners are lightly bumpted with rubbing to corners and turns. Spine is straight and binding secure. No ownership marks. Pages are lightly browning, but remain clean and easy to read. No dust jacket. .
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- Bookseller
- The Reading Well Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6821
- Title
- A TREASURY OF SHORT STORIES Containing Favorites of the Past 100 Years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway with Biographical Sketches
- Author
- Bernardine Kielty And Charles Skaggs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no Dust Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Fiction, LITERATURE, Short Stories, Anthology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
The Reading Well Bookstore
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Delaware, Ohio
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Glossary
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.