No place listed [New York]: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. William STEIG. First edition. 12mo; [184pp]; brown glazed buckram over board with printed in orange on front cover and spine; cartooning characters printed on recto only; unclipped dust jacket; light shelf wear to head and tail of spine; some paper residue to cover at bottom from damp staining of dj; dj has ½" chip to head of spine and chipping to bottom edge, sunning of spine, light damp staining to bottom edge; very good in very good minus dj. A humorous book of cartoon style faces, much in the style of Picasso.

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Bookseller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 140
Title: Persistent Faces
Author: STEIG, William
Illustrator: William STEIG
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce
Place of Publication: No place listed [New York]
Date Published: 1945
Keywords: Humor, Cartoons

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Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Recto: The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
Buckram: A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
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...
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...