Something Near
by Derleth, August
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945. Black cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket. Limited 1/2000 copies. 274 pages; jacket by Ronald Clyne. Derleth's second collection of his own stories. Bookplate of Frank Cooper Associates Agency Inc., 9145 Sunset Bouldevard, Hollywood Calfif. on front fly, internally clean and tight in unclipped ($3.00) showing light chipping at head and tail. Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004118
- Title
- Something Near
- Author
- Derleth, August
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, Wisconsin
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- ARKHAM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arkham House;
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.