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THE BEST EUROPEAN SHORT STORIES OF 1928
by Eaton, Richard (Editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Review copy, with the publisher's slip taped to the front flyleaf. Includes "Money" by Karel Capek and "The Starling and the Angel One-Hundred-and-One" by Luigi Pirandello. Red cloth binding, with gilt lettering. Small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. In the scarce dust jacket, which is shelfworn and chipped, with browning along the spine and folds and some soiling and smudging.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22913
- Title
- THE BEST EUROPEAN SHORT STORIES OF 1928
- Author
- Eaton, Richard (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Anthologies, European Literature, Short Stories
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Established in 1981, johnson rare books & archives is located in the heart of downtown Covina, about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. Our shop is currently open by appointment Thursday - Saturday from 11am - 6pm (please call ahead) and houses an inventory of some 30,000 titles, ranging from the general second-hand to the truly antiquarian. For more information, visit our website at www.johnsonrarebooks.com or call 1-626-967-1888.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Publisher's Slip
- A piece of paper from the publisher included in an advance review copy or an uncorrected proof copy of a book. A publisher's...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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