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A Cab at the Door: A Memoir
by V. S. Pritchett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$37.93NZ$28.44
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About This Item
A Cab at the Door: A Memoir by V. S. Pritchett.
Hardback, 1968, first US edition, published by Random House, New York, 245 pages.
Measures around 8 1/2" by 6" by 1 1/8". Dust jacket has some scuffing, chipping and wear but is quite clean and has a protective plastic cover the protect if from further degradation. Dark green cloth binding, red lettering to front board, gilt lettering and detail to spine, signs of shelf-wear and a little marking but quite clean. Binding reasonably firm, a little slackness but quite sound. Page edges deckled, a little browned, foxed and scuffed. Some marking to endpapers but otherwise page surfaces clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-265
- Title
- A Cab at the Door: A Memoir
- Author
- V. S. Pritchett
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Pages
- 245
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Autobiography, Memoir, True Story
Terms of Sale
GN Books and Prints
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
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