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An Open Book
by Huston, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394404653
- ISBN 13
- 9780394404653
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, NY, USA: Alfred A Knopf, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. 390pp. Quarter-bound in grey cloth over blue paper-covered boards, silver initials on front, silver titles on spine; fore text block edge untrimmed. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine head. Fore text block edge just starting to tan and fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. The veteran of 36 films, 5 marriages and innumerable friendships, practical jokes, horses, love affairs and intellectual obsessions recounts his life and career.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017409
- Title
- An Open Book
- Author
- Huston, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394404653
- ISBN 13
- 9780394404653
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- X weight
- 0 kg
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About the Seller
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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