Creatures of Circumstance
by W. Somerset Maugham
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1947, 1st. U.S. edition, hardcover, dustjacket is price clipped on one corner, some rubbing and edgewear, small chip on spine, two small tears, wrapped in Mylar, book has black cloth boards with gilt lettering and designs, top and bottom edges of spine very lightly rubbed, ex-libris on inside of front cover, tight, square, and free of writing and marking, this is a very nice book! 314 pgs. Fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kalapuya Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 394570091
- Title
- Creatures of Circumstance
- Author
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Kalapuya Books
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
Kalapuya Books
Biblio member since 2021
Cottage Grove, Oregon
About Kalapuya Books
We are an independent bookstore, located since 1997 in a small Oregon community and historic Main Street, nestled in the foothills at the head of the Willamette Valley. Our interests in books lie particularly with environmentally sustainable skills, poetry, creating mindful relations with self and other, human-nature relationships.
About Our Name: Kalapuya Books is named as a tribute to the Kalapuya, First People on the land here which we now call home. They were caretakers, living skillfully and carefully in this area for untold years. The Nez Perce people, from the eastern side of the Cascades, are said to have acknowledged the Kalapuya as healers. The irony and sadness of this is that whole villages were struck and decimated by a devastating epidemic in the early 1800s, resulting in the near loss of a precious culture. Insult and loss of unbearable dimension is acknowledged. We stand on Native Ground.
About Our Name: Kalapuya Books is named as a tribute to the Kalapuya, First People on the land here which we now call home. They were caretakers, living skillfully and carefully in this area for untold years. The Nez Perce people, from the eastern side of the Cascades, are said to have acknowledged the Kalapuya as healers. The irony and sadness of this is that whole villages were struck and decimated by a devastating epidemic in the early 1800s, resulting in the near loss of a precious culture. Insult and loss of unbearable dimension is acknowledged. We stand on Native Ground.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...