The Absolute at Large
by Karel Capek
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Very Good +/Very Good -. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 242 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Black boards with title labels to front and spine.
Dust jacket worn and chipped with amateur tape mending and crude sympathetic color paper fill-ins to verso; general rubbing and spine a touch faded. Boards show light shelfwear and corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked.
Dust jacket worn and chipped with amateur tape mending and crude sympathetic color paper fill-ins to verso; general rubbing and spine a touch faded. Boards show light shelfwear and corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14245
- Title
- The Absolute at Large
- Author
- Karel Capek
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.