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The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library #4.3)
by HENRY, O
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1946]. Hardcover. A collection of 38 of author's best short stories (of the 600+ he wrote). O. Henry is the pen name of William Sydney Porter. Selected and with an introduction by Bennett A. Cerf and Van. H. Cartmell. --- Toledano spine 8, w/blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks, red topstain, grey Kent endpapers. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1945 but likely published c1946. Jacket style h, verso advertises 309 titles in ML catalog. ML #4.3. --- Leaves just a bit yellowed, otherwise a firm, clean copy. Dust jacket with large open rear flap tear, chipping and tears along edges, orig. $1.25 flap price sticker and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; x, 338 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77125
- Title
- The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library #4.3)
- Author
- HENRY, O
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1946]
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
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