The Enormous Radio And Other Stories
by John Cheever
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Very Good
- Seller
-
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Funk & Wagnalls Company, January 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good. Very Good in a slightly lesser dustjacket: light shelf wear and rubbing at the corners and spine ends, bookplate on the front pastedown, binding tight and text block generally fresh. The jacket is not price-clipped, has light rubbing at the corners, and shallow chipping at the spine ends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dunaway Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 185103
- Title
- The Enormous Radio And Other Stories
- Author
- John Cheever
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls Company
- Date Published
- January 1953
- Pages
- 237
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dunaway Books
Biblio member since 2011
Saint Louis, Missouri
About Dunaway Books
Dunaway Books is an absolutely necessary stop for the bibliophile on the Grand South Grand strip. Housed within an airy, spacious former gallery, we carry an unparalleled selection of fine used, out of print and rare volumes. Upon stepping into our store, you will find aisle after aisle of scrupulously collected books treating a broad variety of subjects in depth. We keep new small-press titles by local authors or about local subjects, children's books and shelves of CDs for music lovers. There is something here for everyone. Whether you have a few hours or just a few minutes to while away, Dunaway Books is designed to be an intellectually and creatively stimulating place for the scholar, the collector, and the good old-fashioned voracious reader.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....