Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-Leaves
by CABELL, James Branch
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1927. Hardcover. Small 4to. Half vellum with gilt lettering and green paper over boards. ix, 364pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Minor soiling to spine; small bookplate on front pastedown. First edition, second impression -- a tight and handsome copy. Large paper edition in deluxe binding, limited to 850 numbered copies (this #549) signed in full by Cabell with his usual miniscule script. BRUCCOLI 11.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29815
- Title
- Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-Leaves
- Author
- CABELL, James Branch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robert M. McBride & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE; SIGNED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...