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Catalina: A Romance
de MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Newport, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No jacket. Clean, unmarked, tight, solid book. A light discolored area on front, circular, inch in diameter. Black cloth binding with blind-stamp publisher's device on front, gilt titles and decoration on spine are rubbed but visible. Corners lightly scuffed, lower front one a more so. Spine head and heel compressed, lightly worn. Tight and solid. Pages intact, clean, no marks, no creases, toned. Maugham photo portrait and blurb from jacket affixed to endpapers. "Catalina" is novella. It is a story of the manners and exploits of the time, a compound of irony and romance. It is the story of Spain in the Golden Age of the sixteenth century. 275 pages. 5.5 x 8.2 inches. 1948, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, USA
Sinopsis
W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He began to study medicine in London but quit to focus exclusively on writing. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and politicians. He died in 1965.
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Detalles
- Librería
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 024028
- Título
- Catalina: A Romance
- Autor
- MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Doubleday & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City, New York, USA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1948
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- SPAIN, 16TH CENTURY INQUISITION HEALING MIRACLES SAINTS ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction. Modern Classics;
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
