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Penguin Island (First Modern Library Edition)
by Anatole France
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Modern Library, 1933. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Modern Library edition. Toledano 7. Bound in green cloth with gilt title and decoration on front board and spine. Dark blue top edge. Pale orange patterned endpapers. 295 pp. plus an appendix of other Modern Library works. Tan dust jacket illustrated in blue and black. Not a first edition dust jacket. Minor rubbing on binding edges. Page edges lightly browned. Light foxing on a few pages in text. Sticker on back endpapers. Jacket browned with some minor tearing around edges. Faint dampstains on jacket. Book and jacket are both in very good condition for when they were published. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 066046
- Title
- Penguin Island (First Modern Library Edition)
- Author
- Anatole France
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Modern Library Edition
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern Library, Collectible, Fiction, Novel, Satire, Classics
Terms of Sale
Shelley and Son Books
I offer a full refund if not satisfied as long as the book is returned in the same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Shelley and Son Books
Biblio member since 2005
Hendersonville, North Carolina
About Shelley and Son Books
We specialize in books by and about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, and their Friends.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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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