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Exile
by DEEPING, Warwick
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Skrenda. 8vo. Pp. [1-2], 3-330, followed by two pages of publisher ads. Bound in dark green cloth with light green lettering stamped on front board and spine. Top edge dyed green. In the color-illustrated dust jacket that has edge-wear, notably at head and tail of spine, and remnant of a price tag on the rear flap. Please see photos. An early reprint, following the Knopf first edition. Deeping's novel of expats ("human derelicts") in a coastal Italian town, involving the English-language library and a novelist and an architect. The Skrenda-illustrated dust jacket, printed in pleasantly garish colors, depicts a Ravello-like viewpoint with a woman expressing a wistful posture. Dust jacket is now protected in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6137
- Title
- Exile
- Author
- DEEPING, Warwick
- Illustrator
- Skrenda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
Glossary
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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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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