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THE POTTER'S DAUGHTER. A Tale of the Mellahs
by Dunow, M. (Moshe Dluznowsky)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good
- Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Cooper Book Company, 1959. 289pp. Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Leftwich. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain green original cloth boards minimally shelfworn only. Foxed strips on endpapers, else leaves clean. Art-illustrated (artist not acknowledged) dustjacket price-clipped, fingernail-sized nips on head, dampstain splashes on spine, plus a darkened strip on head of rear panel. From the jacket flap: "This brialliant novel, from the pen of a master of his craft, is set mainly in the Mellahs (Ghettoes) of North Africa . . . Over a wide canvas the author describes tales of intrigue, love, character and customs in a little known but colourful corner of the world, with descriptions of life as it was and still is, in the Jewish quarters of the North African towns . . . " Book weight approx. 420g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First English Edition, First Impression.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011807
- Title
- THE POTTER'S DAUGHTER. A Tale of the Mellahs
- Author
- Dunow, M. (Moshe Dluznowsky)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First English Edition, First Impression.
- Publisher
- Cooper Book Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- FICTION, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, DUNOW, M. (DLUZNOWSKY, MOSHE)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction General; Fiction-First Editions;
Terms of Sale
Diversity Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Diversity Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2005
Korumburra, Victoria
About Diversity Books, IOBA
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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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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