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Critical Observations
by SYMONS, JULIAN
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0899190553
- ISBN 13
- 9780899190556
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A: Ticknor & Fields, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Ticknor & Fields, 1981. First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Julian Symons, novelist, biographer, poet, critic and essayist, offers this selection from his essays, articles and reviews about Dame Edith Sitwell, Hart Crane, Kingsley Amis, Georges Simenon, Dame Agatha Christie, and Others. Book is bound in bright red cloth binding, black titles on spine, very clean and unmarked, slight rubbing to lower corners, remainder mark on lower edge. Internals in Fine Condition. Red jacket is clean, rubbed, light edgewear, with chipping of spine head and a small closed tear on the spine edge. 213 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 1981, Ticknor & Fields, New York, New York, U.S.A.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014678
- Title
- Critical Observations
- Author
- SYMONS, JULIAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0899190553
- ISBN 13
- 9780899190556
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, 20TH CENTURY LITERARY HISTORY AND CRITICISM;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
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- Remainder Mark
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