Wooden Swords
by Jacques Deval
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
-
Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Literary Guild of America, 1930. First American Edition. Translated by Lawrence S. Morris. Good copy. Good jacket. in aqua blue cloth covers with red and black designs on front cover with blue lettering and same on spine. Unmarked, clean boards and pages. Red-stained top edge. Bumping and rubbing of head and tail of spine and corners. Moderate shelf rubbing. Jacket: Modern design of eagle. Bumping and chipping of head and tail of spine, edges and corners. Small hole on edge of spine. Moderate soiling and rubbing. In new protective jacket cover.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001437
- Title
- Wooden Swords
- Author
- Jacques Deval
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Literary Guild of America
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION, HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Humor;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
My book holdings are eclectic in nature.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...