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A Stone, A Leaf, A Door
by Wolfe, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1945. Early printing, 1950. HC w DJ. PC Good/Good. Green cloth, gilt titling in red fields, light edgewear, some dulling to edges, FO pencil notes & marginalia throughout, leaves toned, endpapers foxed, hinge cracked at title page, sound. Several instances of grass clippings and flower petals laid in at intervals w specific pencil notes recounting the FO 1952 pilgrammage to the estate/grave of Wolfe from which the clippings derive. Clipped DJ ($2.75 ink stamp) edgewear w nicks/chips, heaviest wear to tips, extremities rubbed, soiling to rear, now in Brodart. Selected and arranged in verse by John S. Barnes. Foreword by Louis Untermeyer. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Refuge Books: Used & Rare
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230476
- Title
- A Stone, A Leaf, A Door
- Author
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- HC w DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Early printing, 1950
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Pages
- 166
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Refuge Books: Used & Rare
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Nashville, Tennessee
About Refuge Books: Used & Rare
Refuge Books: Used & Rare. Buying and selling books in historic east Nashville, TN since 2012. Specializing in history, biography, Civil War, books on books, theology, Louisiana, the Inklings, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, Wendell Berry, Flannery O'Connor, George Macdonald, Thomas Mann, Madeleine L'Engle, and Frederick Buechner. We welcome any and all inquiries.Instagram: @refugebooks
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- PC
- Partially chipped (dustjacket)
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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