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Cosmopolitans
by W. Somerset Maugham
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1936. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Octavo. 272 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth stamped in gilt.
Price-clipped dust jacket chipped along edges with neat but amateur tape repair to verso; general soiling. Boards show light shelfwear with general rubbing and scuffing. Slight lean to boards but binding is sound. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper and pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good.
[Toole-Stott A50].
Price-clipped dust jacket chipped along edges with neat but amateur tape repair to verso; general soiling. Boards show light shelfwear with general rubbing and scuffing. Slight lean to boards but binding is sound. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper and pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good.
[Toole-Stott A50].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27465
- Title
- Cosmopolitans
- Author
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1936
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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