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Dark Green, Bright Red [Signed[
by Gore Vidal
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1950. Very Good/Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1950. First Edition, stated. Signed by Vidal without inscription on full title. Octavo; 307pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in green cloth with red cloth spine and gilt lettering. Heavy tape repair and edge reinforcement to jacket -- formerly split along at least a couple folds -- with tape mostly to interior but with some external along back panel and flap and at head of spine. Large chip to jacket at top corner near spine, with scuffs along edges, remnants of repaired tears and adjacent creases, and some general scuffs and smudges to surface. Boards a bit edgeworn with a few light scuffs to cloth. Spine a bit cocked and darkened, with nudging at head and tail. Front board opens shakily and book falls open easily between a few gatherings, but binding is sound. Toning and glue residue on endpapers. Accession plate for the Army Medical Library's Staff Library, dated 11/3/50, on front pastedown, with no other institutional markings or additions. Smudges to edges of textblock, but interior unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12691
- Title
- Dark Green, Bright Red [Signed[
- Author
- Gore Vidal
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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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.
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- Plate
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- Gilt
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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...
- 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...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...
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