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Certain People
by Wharton, Edith
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo. 232 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling in dust jacket. First Edition, with (1) on last page of text. DJ heavily worn with chipping to spine ends, corners, and edges. Appx. 3 inch tear to rear joint and heavy soiling to rear panel. Front panel has some foxing, especially to verso, bottom edge is heavily rubbed and brittle, likely from water or adhesive removal. Spine cloth is slightly faded but mostly clean, gilt remains bright. Light foxing to text block edges, eps, and title page. Few light soil marks throughout text but otherwise interior is very clean. Six short stories of the Gilded Age.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 425
- Title
- Certain People
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Wharton, women, New York, gilded age, wealthy, upper class, house of mirth, age of innocence
Terms of Sale
small volume
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About the Seller
small volume
Biblio member since 2023
Providence, Rhode Island
About small volume
Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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