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The Cubical City (Lost American fiction)
by Flanner, Janet
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0809307006
- ISBN 13
- 9780809307005
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Clean hardcover book in unclipped original dust jacket. Black cloth boards with red lettering and decoration on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean red endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Pages and edges are clean. 433 pages. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing, a few short closed edge tears, not price clipped; photo portrait of author on rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. First edition thus - from the "Lost American Fiction" series - Southern Illinois edition of this book that was originally published in 1926 by Putnam. A quite scarce novel on the jazz age in New York City..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035042
- Title
- The Cubical City (Lost American fiction)
- Author
- Flanner, Janet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0809307006
- ISBN 13
- 9780809307005
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Place of Publication
- Carbondale and Edwardsville
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- American fiction, city novel, urban life, Janet Flanner, first edition, jazz age New York City
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Good+
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
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- 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...
- 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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