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SALKA VALKA
by Laxness, Halldor
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First US Edition, First Printing. Pp. 429. A first edition, first printing (first impression) with "First Published in English in 1936" to the copyright page. Original cream boards, title and lettered in red to front board and spine, Internally clean pages, tightly bound. The original jacket is present, not price clipped and is complete. Heavy repairs to verso of the jacket, at folds and spine not visible from front. Chipping to extremities. .
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016729
- Title
- SALKA VALKA
- Author
- Laxness, Halldor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- SALKA VALKA, first edition, Laxness, Halldor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Kelleher Rare Books
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Naas, Kildare
About Kelleher Rare Books
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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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