Tumbling in the Hay
by Gogarty, Oliver St. John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1939 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. xi (i), 324 (4) pp. First Edition, 1939. Return date paper plate on front pastedown, and owners stamp on ffep. Lightly foxed text block and some pages in the margins, else, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.75". Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty (1878-1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.".
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006547
- Title
- Tumbling in the Hay
- Author
- Gogarty, Oliver St. John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Constable and Company Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- LITERATURE MODERN IRISH AUTHORS FICTION NOVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- First Edition
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