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The Small Room
by May Sarton
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good-
- Seller
-
San Rafael, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
This signed copy is in Near Fine condition with just a bit of soiling and bumping to corners. Dust jacket has small chips and bumps to edges and spine ends. Price clipped. Inscibed by the author on FFEP and signed on the title page.
"Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women's college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is a protégée of a powerful faculty member." ---GoodReads
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town Books of San Anselmo
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 542
- Title
- The Small Room
- Author
- May Sarton
- Format/Binding
- Black and tan half bound boards with orange and green spine titles
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition - Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 249
- Size
- 5 3/4 x 8 3/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- college life, colleges, professors, students, relationships
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed and/or Inscribed Books; May Sarton Books;
Terms of Sale
Town Books of San Anselmo
All titles are available for a full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item is misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Town Books of San Anselmo
Biblio member since 2020
San Rafael, California
About Town Books of San Anselmo
Town Books is run by volunteers for the benefit of the San Anselmo Library, San Anselmo, CA. All titles are donated and go through a thorough accession process to ensure that the books are clean and in a good reading state. Selected titles of rare and vintage books are reserved for our online sales with Biblio.com.
Glossary
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- 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"...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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