People of the Reeds
by Maxwell, Gavin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, 1957, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 223pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with rubbing and mild edgewear to boards, binding tight, endpapers are foxed and toned, front flyleaf has PO's signature, otherwise text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. DJ VG with rubbing, toning, soil, mild edgewear.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B42681
- Title
- People of the Reeds
- Author
- Maxwell, Gavin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Anthropology, Middle East
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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