The Partial View: containing 'The Summing Up' and "A Writer's Notebook"
by W. Somerset Maugham
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
London.: William Heinemann Ltd., 1954 Contains both "The Summing Up" (183 pages and "A Writer's Notebook" (293 pages) This volume which is uniform with The Complete Short Stories, The Collected Plays and The Selected Novels. Blue cloth with gold gilt title on spine and front cover. Tight, square binding. Clean text and interior. Dust jacket is now wrapped in protective Brodart cover. Rear jacket panel has other title in this uniform series. Two pieces of top edge of jacket missing as evident in photo. Not price clipped, but rather torn at corner of front jacket flap.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Genesee Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100936
- Title
- The Partial View: containing 'The Summing Up' and "A Writer's Notebook"
- Author
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1954
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About the Seller
Genesee Books
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Rochester, New York
About Genesee Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
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