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Quench the Moon
by Macken, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1948. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. A true first edition, first printing (first impression). pp.[408], original blue cloth, titles in gilt, tight binding, Pages clean with moderate spotting to the edge of text block, small contemporary name to front end page. The rare and fragile jacket is present, not price clipped. Repairs to rear of spine. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
(IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015863
- Title
- Quench the Moon
- Author
- Macken, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Macken, Walter,FIRSR EDITION,Quench the Moon
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Kelleher Rare Books
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About the Seller
Kelleher Rare Books
Biblio member since 2011
Naas, Kildare
About Kelleher Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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