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UP AT THE VILLA
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London, England: William Heinemann Ltd, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1941. First British edition. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches: pp. 153. Red and white paper dust jacket with gold and red gilt type, beehive motif in gold on front panel and repeated in red on spine. Blue cloth with Maugham's characteristic beehive symbol, in black, embossed to front board, still-bright gold gilt titling to front panel and spine, with publisher's windmill symbol in black on back panel.
Dust jacket in Brodart wraps. Some darkening, smudging, edge wear, creasing and very light chipping to top of spine of dustjacket, and at top of front flap. Original 6s price to bottom of fold. Light rubbing to cloth edges. Endpapers quite browned; textblock just lightly age-tanned. Very faint, and not displeasing, pipe aroma. Binding tight.
Dust jacket in Brodart wraps. Some darkening, smudging, edge wear, creasing and very light chipping to top of spine of dustjacket, and at top of front flap. Original 6s price to bottom of fold. Light rubbing to cloth edges. Endpapers quite browned; textblock just lightly age-tanned. Very faint, and not displeasing, pipe aroma. Binding tight.
Synopsis
W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He began to study medicine in London but quit to focus exclusively on writing. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and politicians. He died in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 497
- Title
- UP AT THE VILLA
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Twentieth-century fiction, British Fiction
Terms of Sale
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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About the Seller
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
Biblio member since 2021
Eugene, Oregon
About Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
Housing over thirty years of bookselling business within its virtual walls, Blackwood Bookhouse is a purveyor of quality used and rare books, committed to bringing you the finest products in tandem with superior custom service.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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