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Grandmere
by Delmar, Vina
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Toms River, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with no other printings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with green boards, gold gilt spine lettering, and author's initials blind stamped in decorative font on front board. Pale green endpapers; top stained red. Overall light age toning to the papers and light fading to the red stained top. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. Dust jacket very good; shelf & edge wear; small chip at front top, rubbing & small loss at head & heel of spine; rubbing at spine. Not price clipped. * From the book, ""Taken totally, 'Grandmere has an undeniable sweep and hold that evolves, in terms of action, theme, and ultimate meaning, the severest challenge and the greatest success of Vina Delmar's career.""
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M000957
- Title
- Grandmere
- Author
- Delmar, Vina
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Fiction, Vina Delmar - Author
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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