Cobweb Castle.
by Wahl, Jan; Edward Gorey [ Illus ]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG
- Seller
-
Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG. Edward Gorey.. 1st edition (stated), nearly square octavo, pictorial cloth, unpaginated, color illustrations throughout, Library reinforced binding (not an ex-library book!). Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: slightly cocked, faint spotting to top page edge, otherwise clean and tight with no markings; jacket has slight wear to spine extremities, rubbing to spine head, price-clipped, very faint soiling, "Holt Library Edition" sticker. A nice copy of this Wahl / Gorey classic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bygone Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17719
- Title
- Cobweb Castle.
- Author
- Wahl, Jan; Edward Gorey [ Illus ]
- Illustrator
- Edward Gorey.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bygone Books
Biblio member since 2004
Bluffton, South Carolina
About Bygone Books
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- VG+/VG
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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