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Pomp and Circumstance
by COWARD, Noël
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1960. Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Noël Coward (dust jacket). 8vo. Pp. 308. Tan cloth, titles printed in red and blue on the spine. Spine ends bumped, mild spine lean. In the dust jacket from a Coward painting, price clipped. Jacket edges rubbed, short closed tears on rear panel, small, old tape repair on verso. The famed playwright's only novel, set on a fictional South Pacific island. The colorful dust jacket, illustrated by Noel Coward, is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5843
- Title
- Pomp and Circumstance
- Author
- COWARD, Noël
- Illustrator
- Noël Coward (dust jacket)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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