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Metropolitan Life (3rd printing)
by Lebowitz, Fran
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1978. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 8vo, cloth-covered boards in dust jacket. Light general shelfwear to book, including soft corners. Foxing to edges of text block, with contents clean and unmarked. Moderate but shallow edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, including short closed tearing and some chipping to panel edges and spine ends. Sunning to spine, and creasing and minor soiling to front flap. Now housed in archival dust jacket protector. Overall solid copy of this less common early printing. A first book from this celebrated wit.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C000039090
- Title
- Metropolitan Life (3rd printing)
- Author
- Lebowitz, Fran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third printing
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Fran Lebowitz, New York humor, witty
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About the Seller
Common Crow Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Common Crow Books
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Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Closed Tearing
- Closed tear indicates a torn page in which no material has been lost. A closed tear can be pressed back into place or sometimes...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- 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....
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