Work of Art
by Lewis, Sinclair
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday Doran & Company., Inc., 1934. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good ; Good Jacket. 1934 Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc. First Edition, stated. First printing. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Front cover has central gold-stamped branch with berries framed by series of blind-stamped rectangles. Spine has blind-stamped horizontal lines. Deckle fore edges. 452 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. Spine slightly faded in places. Mild fading to covers at top and bottom edges. Page edges lightly soiled. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Faintly darkened rectangle on front free endpaper. Smudge on bottom page edges at corner. One page has a one-inch by one-half-inch manufacturing flaw in the paper at the bottom corner; a small area in the margin is missing. Pages clean and unmarked. Color-illustrated dust jacket has overall surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, small to 1 inch tears, and creases. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped, showing original price of $2.50. Jacket spine is lightly sunned. Jacket has clear plastic jacket cover. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11248
- Title
- Work of Art
- Author
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran & Company., Inc.
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
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