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The Dwarf
by Par Lagerkvist
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book, spine lightly bruised and rubbed at ends, cloth edges lightly worn; very good dust jacket, spine rubbed, spine e
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: L.B. Fischer, 1945. First American edition. Hardcover, octavo, green cloth boards, stamped brown spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, [4], 228 pp. Very good book, spine lightly bruised and rubbed at ends, cloth edges lightly worn; very good dust jacket, spine rubbed, spine ends chipped and worn, small sections missing at joints, edges lightly worn with close tears, flap seams worn, toning throughout and to edges of flaps.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2176
- Title
- The Dwarf
- Author
- Par Lagerkvist
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, octavo, green cloth boards, stamped brown spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, [4], 228 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book, spine lightly bruised and rubbed at ends, cloth edges lightly worn; very good dust jacket, spine rubbed, spine e
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- L.B. Fischer
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Par Lagerkvist, The Dwarf
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
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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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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