Prince of Darkness and Other Stories [Signed]
by J.F. Powers
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition, stated. Signed by Powers without inscription and dated May 1947 at front free endpaper. Octavo. 277 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present. Gray boards stamped in black and red.
Dust jacket chipped along edges and joints with heavy rubbing along top edge of front panel, and general toning and rubbing. Corners of boards bumped and spine ends nudged. Binding sound and pages unmarked.
Author's first book.
Dust jacket chipped along edges and joints with heavy rubbing along top edge of front panel, and general toning and rubbing. Corners of boards bumped and spine ends nudged. Binding sound and pages unmarked.
Author's first book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13785
- Title
- Prince of Darkness and Other Stories [Signed]
- Author
- J.F. Powers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1947
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...