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Texts and Pretexts: an Anthology with Commentaries
by Huxley, Aldous
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth, green topstain. First edition. Spine and topstain slightly sunned, slight spotting to cloth, first/last pages mildly foxed, bookseller ticket at rear. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is toned to spine and edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages .
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46183
- Title
- Texts and Pretexts: an Anthology with Commentaries
- Author
- Huxley, Aldous
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
Terms of Sale
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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