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THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
by Williams, William Carlos
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
-
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. First edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 80pp. Limited edition #186 of 300 copies. Printed on watermarked hand-made paper by Rives. Plain paper over boards with green cloth spine, lacking spine label. Cover is darkened and foxed. Free end-papers are browned. Half-title, last blank and untrimmed edges are lightly foxed, but pages are nice.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Horizon Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10208
- Title
- THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
- Author
- Williams, William Carlos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Three Mountains Press
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1923
Terms of Sale
Lost Horizon Bookstore
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. We do not accept overseas orders for some countries and for some large and expensive items.
About the Seller
Lost Horizon Bookstore
Biblio member since 2010
Santa Barbara, California
About Lost Horizon Bookstore
We are a small, open shop in Santa Barbara and have been in the same location for over 30 years. We have a select inventory of used and rare books. We also carry original posters and prints, vintage photographs and ephemera. Open Tues.- Sat. 11-6, closed Sunday & Monday.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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