THE SEAGULL ON THE STEP [SIGNED]
by Boyle, Kay
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 247 pages; G/G; spine burgundy and mustard, with white and burgundy lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; long chips missing at corners of flap folds; multiple closed tears at upper and lower edges of jacket front; some fading to jacket spine; crown and tail of jacket spine missing; large chip missing at upper right corner of jacket back; price uncut '$3.50'; some wear to boards; long inscription by Boyle at both sides of front free endpaper; last two leaves of textblock missing; pages clean; shelved Case 6. 1355419. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1355419
- Title
- THE SEAGULL ON THE STEP [SIGNED]
- Author
- Boyle, Kay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
DC's Oldest Rare and Used Bookstore, Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have a large internet presence including this website, Amazon, and Ebay, accredited appraisals member ASA, and an in house book binder. For more information go to www.secondstorybooks.com
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...