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THE LONDON VENTURE
by Michael Arlen, illustrated by Michel Sevier
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good +
- Seller
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
NY: George H. Doran Co., 1920. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. Black cloth with gilt portrait and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Condition of book is VERY GOOD ; edge wear only to ends of spine, covers very clean and fresh, with very mild sunning at top. Binding tight, text very clean with old PO's bookplate on front pastedown. DJ condition is GOOD+ ; not price-clipped ($250) edges worn with large chips. Overall sunned but very clean. In new Mylar wrapper. Fiction. RGR.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7196
- Title
- THE LONDON VENTURE
- Author
- Michael Arlen, illustrated by Michel Sevier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- NY: George H. Doran Co.
- Date Published
- 1920
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
Biblio member since 2008
Blue Hill, Maine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...