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A Purse of Coppers: Short Stories
by O'Faolain, Sean;
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Milwaukee , Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1937 286pp. Spine is cocked and a bit shaken. Tips and spine ends are heavily bumped and heavily rubbed. Lower edge of both boards are rubbed. Top edge of text block is heavily dust stained. Lower edge of text block has many scratches. Spine and board edges are heavily sunned and heavily scuffed. Spine edges are rubbed. Boards have heavy scuffs and heavy scratches. Former owner name on front endpaper. Spine has a small roll. Front board has a small white stain. Text is unmarked. . First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Recycled Records and Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31261
- Title
- A Purse of Coppers: Short Stories
- Author
- O'Faolain, Sean;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Short Stories;
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- 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....
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
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