Babes and Sucklings
by WYLIE, Philip
- Used
- first
- Condition
- VG+
- Seller
-
Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Knopf, 1929. in VG+ dustwrapper that shows some chipping and slight tears to edges but none affecting text. Book is bright but is slightly cocked. Previous owner's neat small name stamp on endpapers (under d.w. flaps). Despite all of these flaws, a collectible copy of the first edition of the author's scarce second book.. VG+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003869
- Title
- Babes and Sucklings
- Author
- WYLIE, Philip
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1929
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About the Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...