Modern Short Stories
by Law, Frederick Houk (ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Century Co., 1924. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xix, 303 pp. The spine titles are rubbed. The rear hinge is cracked, but solid. Previous owner name on the front free endpaper. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045712
- Title
- Modern Short Stories
- Author
- Law, Frederick Houk (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Century Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Fiction - Short Stories
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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