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La Vie Parisienne
by Sacheverell Sitwell
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$34.04NZ$28.94
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About This Item
Hardcover first edition, published by Houghton Mifflin, 1938. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Original price of $1.65 printed on the top corner of the front flap. The jacket has been protected with a clear, Demco brand removable cover. Jacket has a small chip at the top left, about 1/8" deep, 1/2" wide. Closed tear at the lower left about 1" long, and two small closed tears on the lower back, each about 1/4" long. Rubbing wear and some fading to the front and spine of the jacket as well. Gray cloth covered boards over yellow cloth covered spine with the title and author's name imprinted on the spine. All lettering is crisp and not rubbed or worn. Boards are flat and show no edge wear or fading. 5" X 7-1/4", 108 pages. The text is relatively clean considering the age and type of paper stock used, there are just a couple of spots of foxing to the back end papers. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. The binding is tight and square. Sitwell was a art and culture critic, writing more than 50 volumes on Art, Music, Architecture, and Travel. He also wrote more than 50 volumes of poetry too. Attached is a photo of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-512
- Title
- La Vie Parisienne
- Author
- Sacheverell Sitwell
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Paris, France, Victorian era, writers, painters, art, Sitwell
- Bookseller catalogs
- France;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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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