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Big Woods, the Hunting Stories
by Faulkner, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Excelsior, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Big Woods, the Hunting Stories by William Faulkner. Published by Random House, New York, 1955. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Very good, first edition book in very good dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and black paw graphic on front panel; gilt lettering within black panel background and gilt publisher's name/logo on spine. Upper external page edges are green-tinted, and with faint name stamp "Property of ...." Edges at head and tail of board spine are crimped and scuffed, close to but not quite fraying. Internally clean and with snug text block. Dust jacket soil is more obvious against the white background of back panel and also shows splash marks. Upper edge at head of spine is chipped and rubbed and with small closed tears on the corners. Minimal rubs along lower edge at tail of spine. Upper fore-edge corner tips have small loss from rubs. All folds are creased. Upper edges of front and back jacket panels have horizontal creasing and front panel has a1/2" closed vertical tear near the center. Upper edges of front and back inside flaps are sunned and creased. Not price clipped. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bliss Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B230007
- Title
- Big Woods, the Hunting Stories
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Illustrator
- Edward Shenton
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- Sm4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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