THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN.
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition. (Precedes British edition) Very good+ copy in black cloth in a very good dust jacket. (Traces of residue from bookplate removal on front paste-down. Vintage book store sticker on rear paste-down. Tape mend on interior of jacket. Shallow chipping at spine ends. 3-inch tear at upper seam of spine on front panel of jacket. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3113782
- Title
- THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN.
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1942
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About the Seller
Waverley Books
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Santa Monica, California
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...