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WHAT IS A BOOK? Thoughts About Writing
by Warren, Dale (Editor). Contributions By Frances Lester Warner, Ellen Glasgow, Rafael Sabatini, Gertrude Atherton, and Others
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Good+
- Seller
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Surprise, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Good+. Octavo. Bound in original black cloth with red printed title labels spine and front cover and pictorial endpapers. A fine copy in a good+ dust jacket with small piece missing dust jacket spine tip, chips, short closed tears. 298 pp. Contributions by Frances Lester Warner, Ellen Glasgow, Rafael Sabatini, Gertrude Atherton, Havelock Ellis, Mary Agnes Hamilton, Jeanette Eaton, Harold Nicolson, Valentine Williams, Phyllis Bottome, George Fort Milton, Edward J. O'Brien, Francis Frost, Archibald MacLeish, Hebert Agar, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Esther Forbes, E. Arnot Robertson, James Norman Hall, John Livingston Lowes,
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- Bookseller
- Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 08546
- Title
- WHAT IS A BOOK? Thoughts About Writing
- Author
- Warren, Dale (Editor). Contributions By Frances Lester Warner, Ellen Glasgow, Rafael Sabatini, Gertrude Atherton, and Others
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2006
Surprise, Arizona
About Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
We specialize in Rare and Antiquarian First Editions, Literature, Americana, Important Manuscripts and Historic Autographs.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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