Party of One: The Selected Writings of Clifton Fadiman
by Clifton Fadiman
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company, 1955. Stated First Edition. Good copy. Good jacket. In tan clothy covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Insciribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Clean pages. Partially browned endpapers from binder's glue. Cocked spine. Bumping of head and tail of spine. Jacket: Price intact on upper front flap. Chipping of head and tail of spine and edges. Three inch closed tear on edge of back panel. Moderate shelf rubbing. In protective jacket cover.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Half-Leather. Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001600
- Title
- Party of One: The Selected Writings of Clifton Fadiman
- Author
- Clifton Fadiman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION, ESSAYS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Short Stories;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
My book holdings are eclectic in nature.
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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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
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