The Blind Beauty: A Play
by Boris Pasternak
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Harcourt Brace & World Inc., 1969. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1969. First American Edition. 128 pages. Black dust jacket over black quarter bound cloth with silver lettering. Jacket has laminate repair on the reverse. Pages are bright and mostly clear with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Occasional faint thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with notable bumping and scuffing to corners, and rubbing to surfaces. Faint tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a prominent forward lean. Unclipped jacket has heavy surface wear, with chips, tears and creasing to edges, corners and spine ends. Water staining on front and rear panel. Moderately tanned overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1689689596BIL
- Title
- The Blind Beauty: A Play
- Author
- Boris Pasternak
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & World Inc.
- Date Published
- 1969
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...