The Volcano Lover
by Susan Sontag
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Franklin Library, 1992. Hardcover. Good. 1992. First Edition. 419 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth with gilt decoration to surfaces. Limited edition. Flatsigned by the author to front endpaper. Black and white illustrations throughout. Gilt text block edges. Clean pages with faint tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with visible thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Notable foxing to upper edge of front board.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1701082103MXP
- Title
- The Volcano Lover
- Author
- Susan Sontag
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Date Published
- 1992
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Flatsigned
- A flatsigned book is signed, and not inscribed, directly on a page of the book, rather than on a bookplate or with an...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...