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The Catacombs
by William Demby
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, lightly worn edges, publisher's red top edge stain/Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly chipped and worn around edges, small 1" tear to joint of spine, lightly spotted covers, smal
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. First printing stated. Hardcover octavo halfbound in black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, red boards with printed black lettering and decoration, in pictorial dust jacket. Very good, lightly worn edges, publisher's red top edge stain/Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly chipped and worn around edges, small 1" tear to joint of spine, lightly spotted covers, small black grease marker price, 2" x 2" piece displaced from top back cover. Jacket Design by Irwin Rosenhouse; Jacket Photo by Fabio Coen.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 714
- Title
- The Catacombs
- Author
- William Demby
- Illustrator
- Jacket Design by Irwin Rosenhouse; Jacket Photo by Fabio Coen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover octavo halfbound in black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, red boards with printed black lettering a
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, lightly worn edges, publisher's red top edge stain
- Jacket Condition
- Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly chipped and worn around edges, small 1" tear to joint of spine, lightly spotted covers, smal
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- William Demby, The Catacombs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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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