Laments for the Living
by Parker, Dorothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Generous soiling to covers; mild sunning to spine. Minor edgewear and spinewear. Slightly frayed corners. Overall still a tight
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Generous soiling to covers; mild sunning to spine. Minor edgewear and spinewear. Slightly frayed corners. Overall still a tight copy with clean pages, in about very good(-) to good (+) condition. Binding very tight. Pages clean. No jacket. A respectable vintage reading copy of the first ediiton.. Orange-brown polished cloth octavo; 5 preliminary leaves, 237 pages, 2 leaves, 22 cm. Short stories.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 90666
- Title
- Laments for the Living
- Author
- Parker, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
Terms of Sale
Bibliope by Calvello Books
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About the Seller
Bibliope by Calvello Books
Biblio member since 2005
Oakland, California
About Bibliope by Calvello Books
Over thirty-five years experience in the used, out-of-print and rare book trades. Selling online since 1997. WWW.BIBLIOPE.COM (formerly Calvello Books)
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not 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...