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All Thy Conquests
by Alfred Hayes
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (+), light foxing to edges of text block, age toning to front and rear pastedowns, some fading at crown and tail of sp/Very Good jacket, 1" chip from crown of jacket spine, 1/4" chip at tail of jacket spine, 2" closed tear between front panel and
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Howell Soskin, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, red cloth boards with blue lettering in pictorial jacket, 295 pp. Very Good (+), light foxing to edges of text block, age toning to front and rear pastedowns, some fading at crown and tail of spine, small speckled damping stains to front and rear boards./Very Good jacket, 1" chip from crown of jacket spine, 1/4" chip at tail of jacket spine, 2" closed tear between front panel and front flap, two closed tears along spine, otherwise bright and clean jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 417
- Title
- All Thy Conquests
- Author
- Alfred Hayes
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, red cloth boards with blue lettering in pictorial jacket, 295 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (+), light foxing to edges of text block, age toning to front and rear pastedowns, some fading at crown and tail of sp
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket, 1" chip from crown of jacket spine, 1/4" chip at tail of jacket spine, 2" closed tear between front panel and
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Howell Soskin
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Alfred Hayes, my face for the world to see, british fiction, italian fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
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