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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
by Erich Auerbach, Willard Trask
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/good
- ISBN 10
- 0691060789
- ISBN 13
- 9780691060781
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
First English language edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (Princeton 1953) INSCRIBED to a prior owner and SIGNED by Erich Auerbach front free end page; two text chapters show pencil margin brackets were erased; age tone to text pages, offsetting to end papers; tight bind; clean cloth cover, bright gilt titling; dj worn: sun fade to dj spine, rubbing to dj panels, and edge wear (chips to spine ends and corners); flap price present; scarce BO3amsbib
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- DrPanglossBooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio3209
- Title
- Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
- Author
- Erich Auerbach, Willard Trask
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition U.S.
- ISBN 10
- 0691060789
- ISBN 13
- 9780691060781
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1953
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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