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The Gypsy's Curse
by Harry Crews
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, light wear and soiling to cloth spine and ends, and lightly extended to cloth edges and corners, top paper edge has s/Very good, consistent light chipping and small tears to ends of spine which has some lightly rubbed spots, additional 4 tears (
- ISBN 10
- 0394491963
- ISBN 13
- 9780394491967
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Hardcover octavo, orange cloth boards with embossed gilt lettering on cover and spine in an illustrated dust jacket, 207 pp. Very good, light wear and soiling to cloth spine and ends, and lightly extended to cloth edges and corners, top paper edge has some minor soiling, slightest bowing of boards apparent, sound, clean and strong book./Very good, consistent light chipping and small tears to ends of spine which has some lightly rubbed spots, additional 4 tears (. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 414
- Title
- The Gypsy's Curse
- Author
- Harry Crews
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Paul Bacon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover octavo, orange cloth boards with embossed gilt lettering on cover and spine in an illustrated dust jacket, 207 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, light wear and soiling to cloth spine and ends, and lightly extended to cloth edges and corners, top paper edge has s
- Jacket Condition
- Very good, consistent light chipping and small tears to ends of spine which has some lightly rubbed spots, additional 4 tears (
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394491963
- ISBN 13
- 9780394491967
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY
- Date Published
- 1974
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About Better Read Than Dead
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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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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