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ON THE FRONTIER A Melodrama in Three Acts
by W H Auden; Christopher Isherwood
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
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Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Random House, 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition (US). 1st US Edition 1938 (in the same year as the UK edition). Firmly bound & carefully read. The cloth hardcover & top edge are slightly dusty in appearance. the front endpaper has a small pencil not as to the edition & there is a light ink mark in the corner. Otherwise no inscription or ownership markings. No torn, loose or missing pages. Inside the pages are clean & have been carefully read. The original unclipped jacket is partially darkened with age/exposure to sunlight. There is wear & chipping to the edges with some small tears (some repaired on the reverse) & a little loss.
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- Bookseller
- Dandy Lion Editions
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033661
- Title
- ON THE FRONTIER A Melodrama in Three Acts
- Author
- W H Auden; Christopher Isherwood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- First Edition (US)
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- drama, play, verse, prose
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Poetry;
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
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