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Strictly Personal
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Rose cloth, leather spine label titled in gilt, TEG, beveled board edges. Limited edition #309/500 flat signed by Maugham to the limitation page. Spine panel lightly toned, minor damage to front gutter, front hinge slightly spread with mesh showing, although still strong. Frontis portrait. Endpages slightly darkened, textblock edge a bit foxed. No slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24023
- Title
- Strictly Personal
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1941
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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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