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Memento Mori
by Spark, Muriel
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 224pp. First American edition. Review copy, with laid-in publisher's slip and wrap-around promotional band. Moderate shelwear to board bottoms and spine ends, light toning to textblock edges, some off-setting to front end papers. Jacket lightly worn with a 1.5" closed split at top of rear flap hinge, a few other very small closed tears, and some soiling/rubbing to rear panel. A very good (+) copy in like jacket of Spark's third novel, with the seldom encountered promotional wrap-around band featuring praise from Graham Greene. Jacket design by Catherine Smolich.
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- Bookseller
- Dividing Line Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001196
- Title
- Memento Mori
- Author
- Spark, Muriel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Dividing Line Books
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Ridgewood, New York
About Dividing Line Books
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