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While Rome Burns
by Alexander Woollcott
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Viking, New York, 1934. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". viii + 328pp. Text contains some pencil markings. Chips to spine ends. Front hinge cracked. Tear to pre-title. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges browned. Corners bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; United States; Modern; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 47208. .
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47208
- Title
- While Rome Burns
- Author
- Alexander Woollcott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- BZDB243 New Yorker Fiction; United States; Modern; Unbranded Alexander Woollcott While Rome Burns
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
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Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
Glossary
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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....
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