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Lovely Lady
by Austin, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1913. First Edition. Dark green boards with gold gilt and pictorial blind embossment. Light scuffing and soiling to boards. Bumping on edges, corners and to head and foot of spine. Tight binding. Pages clean and bright. Toning to endpapers. Jacket is lightly soiled with chipping on edges. Corners of flaps clipped. Navy blue cloth slipcase has minor shelfwear. Fiction. Unusual in jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008485bt
- Title
- Lovely Lady
- Author
- Austin, Mary
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Mary Austin, Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
Biblio member since 2022
Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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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
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- Flap(s)
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
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