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Nineteen Stories (Graham Greene)
by Greene, Graham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j in protective sleeve (a little bumping and some bleeding from spine); original blue boards
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1947. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j in protective sleeve (a little bumping and some bleeding from spine); original blue boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; faint bleeding from jacket to gutter, but text unaffected; text block firm, pages unmarked a. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Eight of the stories originally appeared in an earlier collection (1935) entitled The Basement Room. Among those new to this collection are ""A Drive in the Country,"" ""The Lottery Ticket,"" and ""The Other Side of the Border,"" the latter two of which were excised from later collections.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC106799
- Title
- Nineteen Stories (Graham Greene)
- Author
- Greene, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j in protective sleeve (a little bumping and some bleeding from spine); original blue boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 231
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, short stories, Greene
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
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About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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