Who Goes Home [Signed]
by Maurice Edelman; Mervyn Peake [dust jacket]
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Allan Wingate and the Book Society, 1953. Very Good-/Very Good. London: Allan Wingate and the Book Society, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Mervyn Peake retaining original price (10s. 6d.), blue topstain; 255pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears (tape repaired on verso), spine slightly cocked, endpapers unevenly foxed, ownership ex libris to front pastedown. A Good to Very Good copy overall. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28025
- Title
- Who Goes Home [Signed]
- Author
- Maurice Edelman; Mervyn Peake [dust jacket]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Allan Wingate and the Book Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...