New York: Scribners, 1935. 1st [A]. HB. Blue cloth, gilt lettering bright on front cover and spine, 8vo., 469pp. Owners name and price covered over, ffep, otherwise clean book that shows slight shelf wear, in colorful dust jacket with chipping, closed tear bottom of spine. Not price clipped. In Brodart. Book condition VG in Good+ DJ.

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Bookseller: Parker's Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: AJ2251
Title: The Curtain Rises
Author: Vaughan, Hilda
Format/Binding: HB
Book Condition: Used
Edition: 1st [A]
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribners
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1935
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Brodart: Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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...
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...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.