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The General's Wife by Straub, Peter
- Bookseller: Spivey's Rare Books, Maps and Fine Art
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 50196
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: VG+
- Illustrator: Thomas Canty
- Edition: First Edition Limited
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0937986542
- ISBN 13: 9780937986547
- Publisher: Donald M. Grant
- Place: West Kingston, Rhode Island
- Date published: 1982
- Pages: 128
Description
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1982. Copy is 1/1200 listed as the "Publisher's Copy" and SIGNED by Peter Straub and Thomas Canty. Copy is bound in green, FULL LEATHER with gilt titles and decoration, lightly bumped lower corners and endspine. . Signed. First Edition Limited. Full Leather. VG+. Illus. by Thomas Canty. 8vo.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. 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 folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
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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