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George Pierce Baker; A Memorial
by Br(own, John Mason; Eugene O'Neill, Donald Oenslager, Sidney Howard, Allardyce Nicoll, Stanley McCandless and Arthur Wilmurt
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York City: Dramatists Play Service, 1939. No additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Very Good. Gluyas Williams. 8vo (6.375"x9.25"). 46pp. Marbled paper wrapped boards with overall fading, corners bumped, rubbing and mild discoloration to upper and lower edges. Extremes of spine chipped. Front and more so the rear cover, cockled. Paste-down title piece faded, with discoloration to lower left corner. Text block in good order with no marks or discoloration. Signed by each of the authors on front end paper. Includes "Second Baker Map" and illustration by Gluyas Williams. In tattered wax paper wrapper.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3838
- Title
- George Pierce Baker; A Memorial
- Author
- Br(own, John Mason; Eugene O'Neill, Donald Oenslager, Sidney Howard, Allardyce Nicoll, Stanley McCandless and Arthur Wilmurt
- Illustrator
- Gluyas Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- No additional printings indicated
- Publisher
- Dramatists Play Service
- Place of Publication
- New York City
- Date Published
- 1939
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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