WHAT IS A CLASSIC? AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE VIRGIL SOCIETY ON THE 16TH OF OCTOBER 1944
by Eliot, T.S. [Thomas Stearns]
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. First Edition, Third Impression. Hardcover. Thin Octavo, 32 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine beige with black lettering. Moderate plus age toning exteriorly with few instances of chipping to the head/tail edges. Price clipped front flap. Text block has light tone to the edges and few stains interiorly. Slight cracking to the gutter at pages sixteen to seventeen. First edition, third impression. 1373382. FP New Rockville Stock.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1373382
- Title
- WHAT IS A CLASSIC? AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE VIRGIL SOCIETY ON THE 16TH OF OCTOBER 1944
- Author
- Eliot, T.S. [Thomas Stearns]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Third Impression
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
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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...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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"...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
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