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A Garland of Straw: And other stories
by TOWNSEND WARNER, Sylvia; PLANK, George (DJ designer)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1943. Cloth. Good+. Second impression. 8vo. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine cocked, spine ends bruised, heavy knock to top edge of bottom board. Edges foxed. Else, clean and tight. In George Plank's original pink and brown illustrated dust jacket: tatty and foxed, spine sunned, losses to head of spine and front panel, nevertheless Plank's cover design shines. A solid copy of this wartime edition of STW's short stories, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker. Good+/ good
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2137
- Title
- A Garland of Straw: And other stories
- Author
- TOWNSEND WARNER, Sylvia; PLANK, George (DJ designer)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1943
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
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