Dawn: A History of Myself
by DREISER, Theodore
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Horace Liveright, Inc, 1931. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (24.5cm); black and dark red cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in silver and gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-589,[1]pp. Mild offsetting from flaps onto endpapers, faint foxing to text edges, else clean internally; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.00), showing modest shelfwear, some dust-soil, and scattered foxing, with some toning and several small, nicks, tears, and attendant creases to extremities; Very Good. A memoir of Dreiser's early youth.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80926
- Title
- Dawn: A History of Myself
- Author
- DREISER, Theodore
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Horace Liveright, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- 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....