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Three Plays Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die
by Odets, Clifford
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Oatmeal cloth first edition. Backstrip is a bit flattened and toned; very slightly cocked. Endpages slightly toned. Leaves are crisp. "Plays 5" pencilled to ffep. The DJ in mylar with $2.50 flap price intact has a few tiny dampstains and slight toning to spine, a short closed tear to rear panel and rubbing to joints, hint of edgewear to crown. ; Tan buckram stamped in brown and yellow, brown topstain. No add'l printings indicating first edition. Frontis photo is partially detached, textblock edge is foxed. Tiny sticker remnant to fep. Sound binding, unmarked. The DJ in mylar with flap price intact has very slight edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23635
- Title
- Three Plays Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die
- Author
- Odets, Clifford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1935
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
curtis paul books inc.
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Northridge, California
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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