New York: W.J. Watt & Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. Gold cloth binding rubbed at spine ends & corners and slightly cocked; backstrip very lightly browned; slight ding to back board; gift inscription pencilled on front endpaper; binding cracked at a few points in textblock; leaf edges & endpapers foxed, else a solid, clean copy. No dj. ; Amusing b&w ils. by author.; 8vo; 152 pages .

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Bookseller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 47786
Title: The Shriek: A Satirical Burlesque
Author: Somerville, Charles
Illustrator: Charles Somerville
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Publisher: W.J. Watt & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1922
Keywords: 20th Century American Humor, Vintage Humor Books
Bookseller catalogs: Humor;

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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...
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...
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....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...