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Parade of Pleasure: A Study of Popular Iconography in the USA
by Wagner, Geoffrey
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- First edition, Hardcover, Good with no dust jacket,
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Shingletown, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Derek Verschoyle Limited, 1954. First edition, Hardcover, Good with no dust jacket,. Royal octavo. London: Derek Verschoyle Limited:, 1954. First edition, Hardcover, Good with no dust jacket, 192 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Royal octavo A clean and straight copy with sunned spine strip and with very modest toning to extremities of text block. Jacket flaps laid in resulting in tape ghosts to rear paste-down and free endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- Ziesings
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69540
- Title
- Parade of Pleasure: A Study of Popular Iconography in the USA
- Author
- Wagner, Geoffrey
- Illustrator
- Royal octavo
- Book Condition
- Used - First edition, Hardcover, Good with no dust jacket,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Derek Verschoyle Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
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Ziesings
Biblio member since 2006
Shingletown, California
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Specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, small press and fine first editions.
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- 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....
- Sunned
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- First Edition
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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