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Antic Hay
by Aldous Huxley
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto and Windus, 1923. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.75x5.5. A fine copy , smooth, clean and tight in a VG jacket (7s6d net.) with faded spine, and tape repairs to verso and one repair on the outside of the cover at spine bottom. Ffe tanned on other side of where bookmark may have been. Frayed edges as published and top of text block retains yellow stain. Bound into copy on page 328 is a 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" bound in title stating Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley. A very nice copy despite flaws to wrapper, of this famous witty and devastating novel. Quite scarce in jacket. Antic hay is a comic novel which takes place in London and depicts the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of WWI.
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- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000308
- Title
- Antic Hay
- Author
- Aldous Huxley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Pages
- 328
- Keywords
- Scarce First Edition in Very good scarce jacket.
- Size
- 7.75x5.5
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About the Seller
Oshtemo Book Sellers
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Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Rare finds with an emphasis on fiction, art, and signed first-editions. Oshtemo Book Sellers has an eye for quality and quirk.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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