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The Snake Pit
by Ward, Mary Jane
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward.. Octavo, 278pp. Teal green cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Solid text block, dampstain to top corner of first few leaves. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, dampstains along top edge, visible on flap and verso. Small chips to corners. (The Dark Page I, 256) A scarce example.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13998
- Title
- The Snake Pit
- Author
- Ward, Mary Jane
- Illustrator
- First edition of The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- The Snake Pit Ward, The Snake Pit first edition, The Snake Pit signed Ward, Mary Jane Ward signed book, The Tree Has Roots first edition, The Tree Has Roots signed,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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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