Wars I Have Seen
by STEIN, Gertrude
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in full blue calf, gilt, compartments. 259pp. speckled blue endpapers. Speckled blue endpapers. Sewn-in blue silk page marker. Near fine. New binding is of course fine; text block is lightly age toned; outer edge of boards (not text block) is slightly splayed, a characteristic sometimes noted in Indian bindings. Handsome custom-bound first edition of Stein's war memoir. Handsome custom-bound first edition of Stein's war memoir.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20039
- Title
- Wars I Have Seen
- Author
- STEIN, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Military History;
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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....
- 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...
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