Black Spring
by Miller, Henry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo. 244 pp, previous owner's name inked top of ffep, else Near Fine - Binding tight and square, pages clean and unmarked, Black cloth backed with gray marbled paper covered boards, gilt letters to spine and replica signature to fr cover. Red-purple DJ, unclipped $5.00 orig price, worn around top/bottom edges, with micro-tears & some bleached white surface blemishes. DJ handles nicely in protector. Third title after the two tropic titles - lyric self-revelation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007599
- Title
- Black Spring
- Author
- Miller, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Fiction - prose - American author Henry Miller
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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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