The Professor's House
by CATHER, WILLA
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Nearly fine in very good dust jacket, lightly worn at head & foot of spine panel. Spine gilt a touch dull; previous ownership si
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Nearly fine in very good dust jacket, lightly worn at head & foot of spine panel. Spine gilt a touch dull; previous ownership signature to bottom of front pastedown. Orange Borzoi device on spine panel moderately faded, as usual. Binding square & tight, pages crisp.. 12mo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 283 + [1], [4 blanks] pp. Publisher's fine indigo quarter-linen over fine orange linen, titled in gilt on spine, top edge orange-red; white dust jacket, illustrated on front panel. Willa Cather's first commercially-successful novel. One of 20,000 copies. Crane A14. A fresh copy in a bright jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 483
- Title
- The Professor's House
- Author
- CATHER, WILLA
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly fine in very good dust jacket, lightly worn at head & foot of spine panel. Spine gilt a touch dull; previous ownership si
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
Irving Book Company
All items subject to prior sale.
About the Seller
Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Irving Book Company
Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....