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Down There on a Visit
by ISHERWOOD, Christopher
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Original yellow paper-covered boards, backed in cloth, titled in orange, dun topstain, with orange and red dust jacket; dark orange endpapers; 318,[2]pp. Straight copy, dusty at head, minor discoloration to upper and lower corner of each board: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $4.75), spine sunned, small tape stains at head and tail, corners reinforced with black tape to verso: just Very Good. A quasi-autobiographical novel about an author named Christopher Isherwood.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56994
- Title
- Down There on a Visit
- Author
- ISHERWOOD, Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...