Swiss Sonata
by GRAHAM, Gwethalyn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & Toronto: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Second Impression of First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second impression (April 1938), green cloth with gold stamping, 383 pp; very minor soiling to boards, very light rubbing, previous owner's name on ffep, Montreal bookseller's stamp on rear fep, hinto of fading to spine stamping; overall a tight copy of the rare UK edition of this award-winning novel. [21]
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Details
- Bookseller
- J.C. Bell
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 190-4
- Title
- Swiss Sonata
- Author
- GRAHAM, Gwethalyn
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Impression of First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London & Toronto
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Governor General's Award Canada
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Literature; Modern First Editions;
Terms of Sale
J.C. Bell
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About the Seller
J.C. Bell
Biblio member since 2005
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
About J.C. Bell
We are a home-based book business and have been selling books online since 1998. We are currently in the process of cataloguing several more thousandused and antiquarian books.
Glossary
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- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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