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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
de Rebecca West
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Good+
- Librería
-
Lochcarron, Highland, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Second printing of first US edition (rarely available in the UK). 2 volumes. With dust jackets. Black cloth boards with picture on front cover and gilt titles on spine. Upper edge of text block edged in blue. Maps on endpapers.
Dust jackets price-clipped; paper browned, especially on spine; rubbed and with small tears on edges; slight soiling in places. Boards with some corners bumped; titles slightly worn on Vol. I; very mild rubbing on edges. Pages age-toned; otherwise clean. Binding firm.
Sinopsis
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is an 1,181-page travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941. The book gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography, and the significance of Nazism, structured about her six week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937. It made the Random House Modern Library list of the best 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century. The writer Larry McMurtry says in an essay, "... there are only a few great travel books. Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is one...".
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Detalles
- Librería
- Kilmaree Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 202
- Título
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
- Autor
- Rebecca West
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Viking Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1941
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
Términos de venta
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Kilmaree Books
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Lochcarron, Highland
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Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
