Born 1925: A Novel of Youth
by Vera Brittain
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. First American Edition. Stated First Printing. Very Good copy with fair jacket. In blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Small stain on bottom edge. Light shelf wear. Jacket is intact minus price. One inch piece missing on lower front panel. Chipping to edges. Moderate shelf rubbing. In new protective jacket cover. Photos upon request. . Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004828
- Title
- Born 1925: A Novel of Youth
- Author
- Vera Brittain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction, Relationships
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Relationship;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
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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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...