My University Days
by Gorky, Maxim
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. Partial autobiography of Alexi Maximovich Peshkov (1868-1936), founding writer of the socialist realism style which came to dominate the Soviet Union. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition. Blue cloth binding, ruled on the covers, with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; 327 pages. Previous-owner signature on the front free endpaper; a second (different) signature on the rear paste-down. Very light rub to the tips; top a bit dusty; gilt on spine dulled but perfectly clear. No dustjacket.. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005605
- Title
- My University Days
- Author
- Gorky, Maxim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...