Before the Brave
by Patchen, Kenneth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Plainfield, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House, 1936. Red cloth over board with gilt decorations on cover. Some fading to spine. Slight rubbing on back cover. Otherwise a VG condition copy of the author's first book. Books contents are very nice and this is a newly reduced price. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Country Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10701
- Title
- Before the Brave
- Author
- Patchen, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
Terms of Sale
The Country Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Country Bookshop
Biblio member since 2011
Plainfield, Vermont
About The Country Bookshop
60,000 books, old postcards, and assorted paper ephemera in an old house located in the rural town of Plainfield, VT. We have been in business since 1974. We're open 7 days a week from 10 until 5.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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