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John Brown's Body
by Benét, Stephen Vincent; MacLeish, Archibald;
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
€111.51€89.20
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc., 1980. 360 pp. 26.5 x 19 cm. Red and wine colored cloth covered boards with titling to orange label on front cover and gilt titling to spine, in dustjacket with illustration on spine, housed in a red cloth covered slipcase. Possible soiling to edges of boards of slipcase at head and tail of opening, otherwise no apparent flaws. Some sunning to spine of jacket, with 25 mm closed compression tear, a few small splash marks, and one 5 mm nick to tail of spine. Light rubbing to head and tail of spine of book, with light bumps to corners of rear board. Signed by Moser on title page in red ink. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding nice and firm. A lovely copy. Due to the size and weight of this book, additional shipping will be requested for expedited and international orders. . Signed by Illustrator. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Moser, Barry.
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Details
- Seller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 626253
- Title
- John Brown's Body
- Author
- Benét, Stephen Vincent; MacLeish, Archibald;
- Illustrator
- Moser, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Munster & Company, LLC
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
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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