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THE STORY OF A NOVEL

THE STORY OF A NOVEL

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THE STORY OF A NOVEL

by Wolfe, Thomas

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
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About This Item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Small Octavo. 93pp. Bound in salmon cloth, lettering to spine and front cover gilt over black, some off-setting to endpapers, previous owner's name otherwise near fine in unclipped dust jacket browned along the spine and edges of rear panel, minor light chipping to head of jacket. A very nice clean copy.

Synopsis

The Story of a Novel is a revised version of a lecture Wolfe gave at a writer's conference in Boulder, Colorado. 

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Bookseller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
2033
Title
THE STORY OF A NOVEL
Author
Wolfe, Thomas
Format/Binding
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1936

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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....
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Chipping
A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Octavo
Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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...
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...
Fine
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