Kitty
by Deeping, Warwick
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Steelton, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. This book is extemely rare in that it is a First Edition as well as comes with its original, handsome dust jacket with original price on front flap. In short, it's a true collectible for the Wawick Deeping admirer. The novel concerns Kitty, a young woman fighting for her independence and happiness and at odds with a possessive mother who attempts to thwart Kitty's relationship with a young man. The book is in Very Good condition, with green cloth covers, black lettering on the front panel and spine, and a colorful floral design with in a black oval border on the front panel. The book has top-edge yellow. As for the interior, the book has decorative patterned endpapers using the Borzoi Books grayhound colophon in a checkerboard pattern. There are no signatures from former owners. The text pages are clean, without tears or stains, and have only light age toning. The unclipped dust jacket has some small tears and chipping at the top corner and spine crown, as well as some soiling on the rear panel and along top edge. I have placed it into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 5 1/4 by 7 3/4 inches and includes 373 pages. See photo.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grimalkin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000195
- Title
- Kitty
- Author
- Deeping, Warwick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction; Romance Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Grimalkin Books
Grimalkin Books is located in Steelton, Pennsylvania, the first town south of Harrisburg. We specialize in older, unusual books and sets, often literary, artistic, or historical. "Grimalkin" is old English for an old gray cat, mainly because the owner, Bob Amsel, is a cat lover. All books subject to prior sale. Payment must be received within 10 days of the order or item will be returned to stock. We accept money orders, bank checks, personal checks (allow time to clear), PayPal or MasterCard/Visa through Biblio's credit card processing service. International orders must be paid in US dollars and can be paid via PayPal, credit card (through ABE), or International Postal Money Order. Your purchase will be carefully packaged to protect it during shipping. Books may not be returned just because the buyer has changed his mind. Only books with actual defects that were not mentioned by the seller in the listing may be returned. Please insure returns for their full value.
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- 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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