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A Breath of Air
by Godden, Rumer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine+/Good+
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1951. First Edition, BOMC. Hardcover. Fine+/Good+. Unclipped Dust Jacket shelf and handling wear with rubbing along spine and chips and tears along top edge. Blue and gray cloth covered boards with silver gilt titling. Tight, clean copy. Pages are unmarked. 280 pp.
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Details
- Seller
- Denali Bay LLC
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1000110
- Title
- A Breath of Air
- Author
- Godden, Rumer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, BOMC
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1951
Terms of Sale
Denali Bay LLC
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About the Seller
Denali Bay LLC
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Denali Bay LLC
Denali Bay specializes in delivering antique, vintage, and rare books to our customers. We offer high-quality products worthy of displaying, collecting, or just enjoying. Many are first editions and some are signed by the authors. Shop Denali Bay now for a great experience.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
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