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Great Russian Short Stories
by Graham, Stephen
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, (First Printing). Octavo, pp. 1021, original blue cloth boards with uneven fading, spine panel stamped in gilt, true first edition, first printing (first impression with 'First Published 1929' to the copyright page. Tight binding, Internally toned pages, well read, with a name and small inscription to the front end page, notes to rear end page in pencil and pen, , the jacket which is not price clipped is fair with rubbing to the edges, chipping to corners, pen mark to front panel. Uncommon in original jacket with some content translated into English for the first time..
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013401
- Title
- Great Russian Short Stories
- Author
- Graham, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Ernest Benn Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Great Russian Short Stories, FIRST EDITION,Graham, Stephen
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Kelleher Rare Books
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Naas, Kildare
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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