Welcome to the City and Other Stories
by SHAW, Irwin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good -/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Random House, 1942. Bound in red cloth, stamped in silver. The book shows some minor staining to front panel and front page edges, but is overall a tight copy. Previous owner's small signature to front paste down. An acceptable first edition (stated) of the author's scarce first book. 269 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59005586
- Title
- Welcome to the City and Other Stories
- Author
- SHAW, Irwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Short Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories;
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abookshop
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Springtown, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...