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Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library #116.2)
by BEERBOHM, Max
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1939]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of author's 1911 novel, set amidst undergraduate life at Oxford. Zuleika Dobson has been named to the Modern Library list of the 100 greatest English-language novels. With an introduction by Francis Hackett. --- In Toledano spine 7 / blue balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover & spine titling with inter-connected "ML" device / faded dark topstain / orange Kent endpapers / jacket style g, verso lists 265 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1939 (though 1926 date appears in the book). ML #116.2. --- With prior owner's signature to ffep, dampstains and mild rippling to many leaves, discoloration to cloth and with dulling to spine gilding, volume is otherwise clean, unmarked and tightly-bound. Fair-only dust jacket with original $.95 flap price, full-length tear at spine, other small tears and chips, and with general age-toning, but mostly intact and in removable mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xi, 358 pages .
Synopsis
Zuleika Dobson is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was his only novel, but was nonetheless very successful.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85444
- Title
- Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library #116.2)
- Author
- BEERBOHM, Max
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1939]
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About Bluebird Books
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- FFEP
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- Verso
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- Leaves
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- Reprint
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- Device
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- Jacket
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Spine
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gilt
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