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More Pricks Than Kicks The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett by Beckett, Samuel
Description
NY: Grove Press, 1970. Octavo (8.25 in. by 5.5 in.); 191pp.; very good hardcover; very good dust jacket; dust jacket lightly bumped at extremities; soiling, foxing to rear panel and spine; book lightly rubbed at extremities; foxing to edge of text block..
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been cut into eight pages.
soiling : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
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