The Sphinx at Dawn
by L'Engle, Madeleine
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0816405271
- ISBN 13
- 9780816405275
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Seabury Press, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Berger, Vivian. Book is in excellent condition with slight sunning at very top edge and bottom spine as only blemishes. Text block is stiff and appears unread. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no othere flaws. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, a little chipping top spine, and a very small curl at top edge. Publisher's page shows no additional printings. Illustrated with wood engravings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143431
- Title
- The Sphinx at Dawn
- Author
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Illustrator
- Berger, Vivian
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0816405271
- ISBN 13
- 9780816405275
- Publisher
- Seabury Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Pistil Books Online
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- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...