A Purse of Coppers - short stories
by O'Faolain, Sean
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 284 pp, Published March, 1938, 14 short stories. Binding tight and square, pages unmarked, clean, with slightly age-toned e.p.'s, light brown woven cloth boards, with paper author/title to fr cover and dimmed a bit on spine. cloth crisp with only faint wear to lower rear foreedge, DJ chipped top and bottom spine and some to edges, and sun-tanned all around. unclipped DJ handles OK in acetate protector. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007678
- Title
- A Purse of Coppers - short stories
- Author
- O'Faolain, Sean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Irish short story writer - Sean O'Faolain - Ireland 1930's - 20th century english language fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...