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The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories
by Welty, Eudora
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good+/very good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very good+/very good. Beige cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with mild toning throughout, foxing and soil to edges of block. DJ has toning and rubbing, small hole to rear flap hinge, in archival mylar wrap.
Synopsis
This collection combines stories set in Welty's special province, the rural South, with stories having a European locale. This gives a wider range to her fiction and demonstrates the remarkable talent of one of the finest short-story writers of our time. "Humorous, piquant, graceful" (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Sewanee Review).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B56981
- Title
- The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories
- Author
- Welty, Eudora
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good+
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Literature
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About the Seller
Common Crow Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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