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The Bridge of the Brocade Sash
by Sitwell, Sacheverell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland, Ohio / New York, NY: World Publishing, 1959. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Cleveland, Ohio / New York, NY: World Publishing, 1959. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated "First Edition" in original dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with darker green decoration on cover, dark green lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight, no cracking; pages and edges are clean. Pink endpapers are clean, with small tasteful previous owner bookplate in lower corner of front paste-down. No other marks. Illustrated with photographs (black & white and full color). 314 pages with index. Dust jacket is clean (slightly age-toned), tiny chip at one corner tip, very slight wear at spine ends, small price clip to upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025267
- Title
- The Bridge of the Brocade Sash
- Author
- Sitwell, Sacheverell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- World Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland, Ohio / New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- JAPAN, JAPANESE TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, FIRST EDITION, SACHEVERELL SITWELL, CULTURE, OTHER LANDS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; Japan;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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