The Suspended Drawing Room
by Behrman, S. N
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Stein and Day. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages; 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by Behrman on the flyleaf, dated Oct 1965 NYC. Soundly bound in original 1/4 cloth backed spine and brown paper covered boards. Spine just slightly shelf cocked. Dust jacket toning at spine and panel edges with light shelf rubbing to edges and a few short closed tears. VG+/VG-; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39323
- Title
- The Suspended Drawing Room
- Author
- Behrman, S. N
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Stein and Day
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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