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Hans Christian Anderson: A Great Life In Brief
by Godden, Rumer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Rumer Godden wrote about 60 works during her life, and nine of her books were made into movies. Contains an index in the rear.Original tan cloth publisher's covers with gilt spine lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. There is some rubbing to the dust jacket, else it is in presentable conditon. Stated first edition. ; Great Lives in Brief Series; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 206 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14625
- Title
- Hans Christian Anderson: A Great Life In Brief
- Author
- Godden, Rumer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Biography, Literary Biography
Terms of Sale
Peninsula Books
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About the Seller
Peninsula Books
Biblio member since 2023
Traverse City, Michigan
About Peninsula Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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