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One Arm and Other Stories
by Tennessee Williams
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: A New Directions Book, 1948. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: A New Directions Book, 1948. First Edition, Second State with title page a cancel. Tall octavo. 210 pp. With acetate dust jacket, presumed original. Red-brown cloth over paper-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Housed in publisher's slipcase with paper title label to front. Light scuffing to dust wrapper. Boards with very light rubbing to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase worn at edges with exposure; neat but amateur paper tape repair to length of vertical edge of closed side, else stable and sound. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good slipcase.
Synopsis
"First New Directions paperback edition."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27969
- Title
- One Arm and Other Stories
- Author
- Tennessee Williams
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A New Directions Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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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