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Of Human Bondage
by Maugham, William Somerset
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Grosset & Dunlap, by arrangement with Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1915. First American Edition. Cloth. Fair. Later state of first American edition, with "help" corrected to "helped" on line 4, p. 257. 8vo. 648 pp. Condition: fraying of green cloth, with some blistering, sunning of spine and joints. Half title tear along hinge. Some light dampstaining, heavy age toning, waviness of leaves. Generally a somewhat rough, but complete, copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006849
- Title
- Of Human Bondage
- Author
- Maugham, William Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, by arrangement with Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Date Published
- 1915
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Later State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from a later run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part...
- 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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