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I, The Tiger
by KOMROFF, Manuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good-
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good+/Good-. Boris Artzybasheff (dust jacket design). 8vo. Pp. 249. Decorated endpapers. Bound in red cloth stamped with black and gilt lettering. Edges worn. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows large chips near head and tail of spine, and old, small tape reinforcement on verso. A novel told in the voice of a tiger in Bengal. The sleek Boris Artzybasheff dust jacket illustration is quite effective in its use of a limited three-color printing palette. 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 #
- 5961
- Title
- I, The Tiger
- Author
- KOMROFF, Manuel
- Illustrator
- Boris Artzybasheff (dust jacket design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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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