The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories [1st Edition]
by Saroyan, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-VG/Fair
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1934. Book. Good-VG. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light tan cloth, with spine panel in black, gold foil wraparound title band. 270 pp. Stated First Edition. Modestly soiled/toned along joints, with dampstaining evident along top edge and upper portions of front panel, toned along top rear edge. Light surface rubbing to title band. Firm binding. Interior slightly toned but cleaned, toning a bit more evident on endpapers than through text block. Dust jacket "as is," lacking entire spine panel but retaining most of both main panels and flaps. Both flaps re-attached with archival tape carefully applied to verso, jacket newly placed in Brodart sleeve. Chipped with loss along both front edges affecting "g" in "Daring" (top) and "Random" in "Random House" (bottom), also chipped with loss along rear top and fore-edges. Both main DJ panels are more than 90% complete, and the overall presentation is still acceptable. Author's first book..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012319
- Title
- The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories [1st Edition]
- Author
- Saroyan, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-VG
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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- Verso
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- Acceptable
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Brodart
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