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Painted Veils
by James Huneker
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. Limited Edition First thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this best known work by Huneker. Binding is 1/4 vellum colored spine over green boards with fine paper label at spine. #20 of 1200 printed. Privately printed for subscribers only. 7 line book dealer description on verso of back board dated 1949 Jacket is VG with chipping to spine ends and extremities. jacket quite good but somewhat fragile and freshly repaired at spine folds. Exlibis on front paste-down Publishers? SLIPCASE included.
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Details
- Seller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000314
- Title
- Painted Veils
- Author
- James Huneker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition First thus
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Pages
- 294
- Keywords
- First Edition Limited to 1200 #20 signed
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Oshtemo Book Sellers
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Kalamazoo, Michigan
About Oshtemo Book Sellers
Rare finds with an emphasis on fiction, art, and signed first-editions. Oshtemo Book Sellers has an eye for quality and quirk.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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