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Saint Katy the Virgin
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Covici Friede Inc.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth spine with gilt-decorated boards. Limited edition #93 of 199 numbered copies signed by Steinbeck to the colophon. Printed by S. A. Jacobs at the Golden Eagle Press in Mount Vernon, NY. Red lettering to spine is partially rubbed away and board edges are rubbed through, with minor loss to points; there is a scratch to front board. The interior has scattered foxing and some glue darkening, and the ffep has been neatly torn away. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 25 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32566
- Title
- Saint Katy the Virgin
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Covici Friede Inc.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1936
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- 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...
- 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....
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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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