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The Certain Hour (Dizain Des Poetes)
by Cabell, James Branch
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1920. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Early reprint. Hardcover in Good Condition. No jacket. Brown cloth binding with gilt debossed sketch of a horse on the lower front corner, title on spine with gilt rubbed off is difficult to see. Binding if wuite clean and unmarked. Boards are rubbed along edges,light wear to corners, with bottom rear corner scuffed; spine heel cloth has tears; spine head cloth has a less than quarter inch piece missing from the top. Sewn binding is tight and solid. Rough cut on fore edge and lower edge. Pages very clean and unmarked, some tears along fore edge where pages were cut open, no creases, evenly toned, with some pages having small pieces out of fore edge, it looks like from when pages were cut. Consists of ten short stories around the works of ten poets plus two poems. James Branch Cabell (1879- 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction. Although escapist literature, his works are ironic and satirical. 253 pages. 5 x 8 inches. Robert M McBride Publishers, New York, 1920.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012666
- Title
- The Certain Hour (Dizain Des Poetes)
- Author
- Cabell, James Branch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robert M. McBride & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- JAMES BRANCH, 1879-1956 FANTASY SATIRE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Fantasy;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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