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A Cloud on Sand
by Gabriella De Ferrari (1941- )
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394551451
- ISBN 13
- 9780394551456
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
324 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and faux author's signature in gilt to cover over red boards in original pictorial jacket. Promotional post card laid-in. First American edition. First-time novelist Gabriella De Ferrari's A Cloud on Sand succeeds in giving its audience quality fiction combined with international flair and historical insight. Entertainment Weekly called it "a quietly enthralling masterpiece". Condition: Spine ends rubbed, previous owner's name erased from front end paper else a very good copy in a fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS006387
- Title
- A Cloud on Sand
- Author
- Gabriella De Ferrari (1941- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0394551451
- ISBN 13
- 9780394551456
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- 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...
- 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....
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