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The Powder of Sympathy
by Morley, Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good++/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Book. Illus. by Walter Jack Duncan, Illustrator. Very Good++. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Stated First edition. Very Good++/Very Good+. Walter Jack Duncan, Illustrator. "First Edition" stated on title page. Very clean light orange boards with clean unchipped paper label on cover, clean unfaded brown cloth spine with gold lettering. No bumping or fraying; tiny spot of wear to two corner tips. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 304 pgs. Illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan. Illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped (1.75 on lower corner of front inside flap), very light soiling, tiny chip at based of spine, a few very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017861
- Title
- The Powder of Sympathy
- Author
- Morley, Christopher
- Illustrator
- Walter Jack Duncan, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- BOOKS ON BOOKS/PUBLISHING CHRISTOPHER MORLEY FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Books on Books/publishing;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
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