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Voice of the City: The Complete Writings of O. Henry, Volume V
by Henry, O
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
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CA$13.89CA$6.94
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About This Item
NY: Doubleday Page & Co. . VG. 1917. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Limited Memorial edition. This copy is #388 of 1075 copies. Bound in c ream vellum and blue paper covered boards, top edges gilt. Illustrated with four black & white plates by Gordon Grant. A Very Good copy in a Very Good cloth dust jacket. Slight spine slant. Rubs to the book's corners and spine tips. Rubbing along the head of the spine. The vellu m is tanned. Some soiling to the spine and covers. Damp stain to the h ead of the spine, which does not affect the pages. Offset tanning to t he endpapers from the dust jacket's inner flaps. The cloth dust jacket is rubbed along the edges, corners, and spine tips. Dusting to the sp ine and panels. Damp staining at the head of its spine. .
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- Dearly Departed Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83239
- Title
- Voice of the City: The Complete Writings of O. Henry, Volume V
- Author
- Henry, O
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday Page & Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1917
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About Dearly Departed Books
Selling books since 1978. We specialize in SF, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Western & Pulp Fiction. With an inventory of more than 35,000 Hardcover 1st editions, Vintage Paperbacks , Pulp Magazines & general antiquarian books. Store front open by chance or appointment.
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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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