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Geography & Plays
by STEIN, Gertrude
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG
- Seller
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Four Seas Company, 1922 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG++/VG. 1st Edition in 1st State binding. 13 x 19.5 cm blue cloth backed grey boards with blue stamped titles to the front and white titles label to the spine. 417 [1]pp. In original dust jacket with $3.50 price on the spine. There is a touch of shelfwear and pushing to the spine tips and a hint of toning to the edges. Internally clean and without name inscription or bookplate. The dust jacket is toned and rubbed on the spine. There is chipping to the spine tips and corners with loss of up to 1.5 cm. The lower joint has some reinforcement with Japanese paper. The book contains the first publication of Miss Furr & Miss Skeene considered to be the first published use of the word "gay" to mean homosexual/lesbian. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202422
- Title
- Geography & Plays
- Author
- STEIN, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Four Seas Company
- Date Published
- 1922 1922
- Keywords
- Plays|LGBTQ+|Women
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Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
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About the Seller
Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Biblio member since 2020
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
About Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Rainford & Parris Books is a small family business based on the Hertfordshire / Essex border, close to London Stansted Airport. We are full time professional bookdealers specialising mainly in Modern First Editions, Children's Books, Illustrated Books and Nineteenth Century Literature, as well as assorted fine and interesting books. When describing our books we attempt to list all significant defects to a high degree of precision, so that you can build an accurate idea of their condition. We supplement our description with images and are always happy to provide further images or information. All books are very carefully packaged in a new book-box so that they reach you in the condition described.
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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