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Here Lies
by Dorothy Parker
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover first edition with dust jacket, published April 1939, by The Literary Guild. A collection of 24 short stories, including her O. Henry award winning, 'Big Blonde', as well as 'Horsie', 'Lady With a Lamp', 'Just a Little One', 'The Sexes', and more. Includes the stories that were included in her first two collections as well as three additional stories that had not been collected previously. The dust jacket has been price clipped, it also has a large chip to the spine - a triangular 3 inch long chip. Short closed tear at the top - about 1/2 inch, just above the second 'E' in 'Here', and a 1 inch tear at the back near the top left edge - rubbing and edge wear throughout too. Green cloth covered boards with the author name and title within a stylized black and gold field on the spine - all lettering and design elements are intact and not rubbed or worn. Slight faded stain mar at the head of the spine - about 1/2 inch long. Age tanning to the pastedown and ffep - both front and back. Stain mark to the gutter at the back, half inch wide from top to bottom. Boards are not edge worn and the corners are not bumped or creased. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. The binding is tight, all pages are intact. Very slight spine lean, some fading to the green topstain, and some spots of staining to the edges of the text block. A solid copy of this rare volume, still attractive enough for display. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-632
- Title
- Here Lies
- Author
- Dorothy Parker
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Literary Guild
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- new york, Algonquin Round Table, wit, satire, modernism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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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