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Recapitulation
by Stegner, Wallace Earle
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1979. Limited First Edition. Leather Bound. Boards show very light shelf wear, previous owner's bookplate on blank page.; A bright, solid book. Full leather with gilt stamped decoration on front board and gilt titles and decorations on spine and four raised bands. All edges gilt and bound in is a brown satin ribbon bookmark. Laid in is the Notes from the Editors which accompanied the book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 335 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21729
- Title
- Recapitulation
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace Earle
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Limited First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center PA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Wallace stegner, first editions, LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
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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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
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