New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1956]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of author's satirical fantasy novel which was cited as a major factor in his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. Includes an introduction by H.R. Steeves. --- In Toledano spine 8, w/green cloth-covered boards, gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks, black topstain, grey Kent endpapers. Likely published c.1956 (though 1909 date appears in book). Jacket style i, verso advertises 377 titles in ML catalog. ML #210.1. --- With penciled notation on page viii and a little dulling to cover gilding, otherwise an unmarked, clean, firm copy. Dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges and some light soiling to covers, otherwise bright and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xvi, 295 pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 79213
Title: Penguin Island (Modern Library #210.1)
Author: FRANCE, Anatole
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Publisher: The Modern Library
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: [c.1956]
Bookseller catalogs: >>Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, Nat Book Award Prize;

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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.
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...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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....
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...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...