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Galatea
by Cain, James M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good (in mylar)
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Author's ink signature on ffep; This copy was once owned by celebrated novelist Raymond Chandler, whose name and address on Camino De La Costa, in La Jolla, California, is ink-stamped on the ffep, above Cain's signature; Below the author's signature is the simple ink inscription: "From B. Knopf", which may be Blanche Knopf, co-founder of Alfred A. Knopf Publishing; Textblock is very clean and tight; Binding gently bumped at spine tips; Unclipped dust jacket, chipped at spine tips and and board corners; Several jacket closed edge tears have been invisibly mended along the underside, utilizing Japanese archival mending tissue and ph neutral pva adhesive; 242p.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Good (in mylar). Illus. by Jacket Design by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB12410
- Title
- Galatea
- Author
- Cain, James M
- Illustrator
- Jacket Design by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Fiction, Southern Maryland Fiction, Holly Valenty, Raymond Chandler
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
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- 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....
- 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...
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