Rock Crystal: A Christmas Tale
by Stifter, Adalbert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 1945. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 94 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, in slip case. Some normal wear to the jacket and minor chipping. Jacket price clipped. Wear to edges of slip case. Minor foxing to spine of book, but otherwise clean and tight. Colored illustrations throughout. Record # 2230632
Synopsis
Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), the Austrian writer, poet, and painter, grew up in Bohemia and was educated at the University of Vienna. Among his most famous works are the novel Indian Summer and a collection of stories, Colored Stones . Fanny Howe , the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, was the recipient of the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her Selected Poems. She was short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001 and 2005. Marianne Moore (1887–1972) is universally recognized as one of America’s finest poets. Elizabeth Mayer (1884–1970) was a German-born American translator and editor.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monroe Street Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2230632
- Title
- Rock Crystal: A Christmas Tale
- Author
- Stifter, Adalbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Children's, Fiction, Reprint, , .
Terms of Sale
Monroe Street Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Monroe Street Books
Biblio member since 2006
Middlebury, Vermont
About Monroe Street Books
Monroe Street Books is Vermont's largest used book store. Open 7 days a week. Over 100,000 books in store. Additional 50,000 online.
Glossary
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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....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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