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The House of Breath
by William Goyen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good/Very good jacket, lightly chipped and cracked spine ends with some edge wear and ~5 very small (
- ISBN 10
- 039449699X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394496993
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York and Berkley: Random House Bookworks. !975 Reprint, limited to 7,500 paperback copies and 1,500 copies bound in cloth. Hardcover, octavo, quarterbound black cloth and gilt silver lettering and beige paper boards with stamped silver gilt decoration. Very good/Very good jacket, lightly chipped and cracked spine ends with some edge wear and ~5 very small (.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 829
- Title
- The House of Breath
- Author
- William Goyen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, octavo, quarterbound black cloth and gilt silver lettering and beige paper boards with stamped silver gilt decoration
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good jacket, lightly chipped and cracked spine ends with some edge wear and ~5 very small (
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- !975 Reprint, limited to 7,500 paperback copies and 1,500 copies
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 039449699X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394496993
- Publisher
- Random House Bookworks
- Place of Publication
- New York and Berkley
- This edition first published
- 1975
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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