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The Catherine Wheel
by Stafford, Jean
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Troup , Texas, United States
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About This Item
United States: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1952. Clean text. Unread. Light uniform toning to the edges of the text block. Toning to the top edges of the boards. Small once used lending lirary stamp to the top corner of the FFEP. Blue cloth boards & spine, silver spine lettering. Dust cover not price clipped. Some light shelf wear. One small tear to the top edge of the front panel another small closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel Presents well under new mylar cover. Very handsome and uncommon inscribed copy of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Uncommon copy of an early Stafford work.. 1st Edition. Hardcover w/ jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
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- Bookseller
- The Casemaker
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008872
- Title
- The Catherine Wheel
- Author
- Stafford, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Co
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Unsigned Books;
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About the Seller
The Casemaker
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Troup , Texas
About The Casemaker
Welcome. I am a working artisan with a passion for books and beautiful slipcases. If you are looking for a case for a specific title and are unable to find it in my catalogue please feel welcome to contact me for a quote on custom work.
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Joshua
The Casemaker
All cases in my inventory have been constructed to fit the 1st Edition / 1st Printing of the title unless otherwise stated. Should you have any concerns about the printing state of your volume, or the measurements of a specific case, please get in touch for a size check before your purchase.
Joshua
The Casemaker
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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"...
- 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....
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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