CORNED BEEF AND CAVIAR for the Live-Aloner
by Hillis, Marjorie & Foltz, Bertina
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1937. Hardcover; 8vo; 196 pages. First edition. Scarce. Green cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering Sunned spine. Yellowing but clean interior. Prev. owner's name in pen on ffep. G/--. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 225691
- Title
- CORNED BEEF AND CAVIAR for the Live-Aloner
- Author
- Hillis, Marjorie & Foltz, Bertina
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1937
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- Food;
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J. Wyatt 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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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