The Magician
by Maugham, Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Belleville, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
William Heinemann, London, 1908, First Edition (period re-binding), 12mo., 310 p. quarter maroon cloth over brown paper boards, title paper label to spine.
boards have wear through at each corner, resulting in bumped/curved corners. Rear board has an indentation, level with the bottom of the paper label on spine; perhaps as a result of improper shelving. Many pages have soiling and/or foxing as well as turned down corners. Based on my cursory review, the binding itself is still strong. Photo of Aleister Crowley is affixed to front paste down and a very brief review is pasted to the ffep both presumably clipped from a contemporary periodical as the price indicated for the volume is "15s". NB: not in original binding, this book has been re-bound many years ago- (period binding but not publishers) Ex-libris- English bibliophile and Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas C. Bishop-Culpeper, with his distinctive book label affixed to flyleaf. paid $100
Inv. # 63605 TM* bds 7/2023
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Details
- Bookseller
- Low Brow Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63605
- Title
- The Magician
- Author
- Maugham, Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Quarter maroon cloth over brown paper boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Pages
- 310
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- occult fiction, black magic, mystery, vintage fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Occult fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About Low Brow Books
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- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...