HEAVEN AND HELL
by Huxley, Aldous
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 103 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, date stamped to rear flap. Spine pictorial black and beige with off-white lettering. Exterior has mild age toning and slight soiling wear with few instances of chipping to the head/tail edges. Boards have sparse, tiny spots to the front and lightly rubbed spine edges. Boards slightly splayed cocking spine. Text block has very slight age toning to the edges. Deckled fore edge. Mild offsetting to the end papers. First edition bearing Harpers A-F coding to the copyright page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column H, ND-H. 1379705. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1379705
- Title
- HEAVEN AND HELL
- Author
- Huxley, Aldous
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
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