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Makar Chudra and Other Tales
by GORKY, Maxim
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Moscow, 1963. Fair. In Russian. 8vo, pp. (206), (2 adverts?) + b/w frontispiece of Gorky and illustrations. Quarter cream cloth with black lettering, illustrated paper boards. Rubbed, edgeworn, spine grubby. Edges browned, endpapers and text block tanned. Section removed from ffep (POI?), occasional pencil and pen annotation (in English). Spine cracked at pp. 34-5, but binding holding firm. Still, a good copy of an unusual, and striking, title.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 787
- Title
- Makar Chudra and Other Tales
- Author
- GORKY, Maxim
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Moscow
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Russian
Terms of Sale
Quair Books
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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