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The Day We Got Drunk on Cake [Signed]

The Day We Got Drunk on Cake [Signed]

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The Day We Got Drunk on Cake [Signed]

by William Trevor

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New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First American Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on half title. Octavo; [viii], 210pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; boards in black paper and blue cloth spine with black and light blue lettering. Jacket scuffed along edges and folds with a couple tiny closed tears and rubbing at spine ends. Boards are square, with some fading along top edge and a light bump at tail. Armorial, full-color Comstock bookplate attached to front pastedown, obscured by jacket flap. Ghosts of pencil erasure to flyleaf, else interior unmarked. Binding is sound.

First American Edition of Trevor's first short story collection, which appeared from The Bodley Head in London the year prior.

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Bookseller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
29126
Title
The Day We Got Drunk on Cake [Signed]
Author
William Trevor
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
The Viking Press
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1968

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Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.

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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....
Bookplate
Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Half Title
The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
Tail
The heel of the spine.
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...

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