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Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews
by GALLANT, Mavis
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1988. Reprint. Octavo. Paper-covered cloth boards in dust jacket; 249pp. Publisher's slip laid in. Textblock trivially cocked, pencil eraser sized faint dampstain to bottom edge of textblock, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Minor age-toning to interior flaps and interior of dust jacket. Jacket showing trivial shelf wear. Near Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52224
- Title
- Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews
- Author
- GALLANT, Mavis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Publisher's Slip
- A piece of paper from the publisher included in an advance review copy or an uncorrected proof copy of a book. A publisher's...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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