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Saint Joan of Arc
by Sackville-West, Vita
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. Stated first edition in original dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration on cover, decorated spine with black title box, bright gold lettering. No bumping or wear; some fading along upper edges. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner name neatly penned on front free endpaper - no other marks. Frontispiece photograph of the canonization of Joan of Arc, May 16, 1920. Additional illustrations and maps. Pages are clean, with blue top-stained upper page edges. Foreword by the author. 395 pages with Index. Dust jacket is clean with some sunning, price clipped ("price" still visible at upper corner of front inside flap), completely separated at front spine fold; numerous edge chips, piece missing at base of spine; now enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. .
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034537
- Title
- Saint Joan of Arc
- Author
- Sackville-West, Vita
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Stated First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Joan of Arc, Saint Joan, Vita Sackville-West, biography, first edition, first American edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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"...
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