A Year in the Dark
by Adler, Renata
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Random House, 1969. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hard cover. First printing. Dust jacket is scuffed, scraped and scratched. Chips, wearing and nicks to top and bottom edges of the dj, especially in the spine area. DJ has been placed in protective archival dust jacket. Inside flap of DJ has remnants of old price sticker. Black cloth boards have sun fading along top edge, with some scraping to edge. Gilt title on spine is nice a bright. Dented corners. Sad to say that the top of text block is quite foxed. Foxing is NOT on pages, endpapers, or paste-downs. Red stamped "H" within a circle on the FFE. Red ink stain on outside of textblock between pages 195-202, and smaller (very small) bits of red ink on a few other pages after page 202. All on outside of text block, which have deckled edges. 354 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Quirky Used Books & More
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230420013
- Title
- A Year in the Dark
- Author
- Adler, Renata
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
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