The Virgin Kills
by Whitfield, Raoul
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Octavo in mustard yellow cloth, no jacket. Soiling and light wear to boards and to cocked spine; spine shaken, ink stamp on rear pastedown, text unmarked. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037238
- Title
- The Virgin Kills
- Author
- Whitfield, Raoul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
Terms of Sale
Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill
You buy it, we ship it. If you're unsatisfied, send it back for a refund.
About the Seller
Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill
Biblio member since 2006
Seattle, Washington
About Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill
We're a brick & mortar shop in Seattle. We've got six live-in cats.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....