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A Woman of the Pharisees (La Pharisienne)
by Francois Mauriac
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1946. First Edition. 203 pages. Yellow dust jacket over green cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Mild tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and boards are bowed with large dent to front. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Heavier sunning to interior.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1631108155DPB
- Title
- A Woman of the Pharisees (La Pharisienne)
- Author
- Francois Mauriac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Date Published
- 1946
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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