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A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. Edges of the textblock heavily age-tone
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Lehmann, 1950. Hardback. Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. Edges of the textblock heavily age-toned, extending onto the margins of the leaves. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (green boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 7½” x 5” (0.7 kg); (xix) 272pp; In the Chiltern Library series; Translated by David Magarshack; Cover art by Philippe Jullian; Preface by David Magarshack; Number 36 in the series. Contains: White nights; The Honest Thief; The Christmas Tree and a Wedding; The Peasant Marey; Memoirs from a Dark Cellar; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199241|| Condition:
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 199241
- Title
- A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. Edges of the textblock heavily age-tone
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: John Lehmann
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- literary collections, literature collections, novels, fiction anthology, anthology stories, anthologies, short story collections, english short novels, first edition books, books by fyodor dostoevsky, david magarshack, philippe jullian, chiltern library s
Terms of Sale
BookLovers of Bath
As a distance seller based in England, I am required to abide by the terms of the "Distance Selling Act", details of which are freely available. This ensures that you have the highest degree of protection when purchasing from me. Alongside that, I prefer to treat my customers in the manner that I expect to be treated; my guarantee is complete satisfaction or your money back - I aim to please, not just for the one book sale but to ensure that should you require another book, another time that my name against it means it gets your consideration.
About the Seller
BookLovers of Bath
Biblio member since 2006
Peasedown St. John, Somerset
About BookLovers of Bath
BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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