- Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 008825
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: A lovely copy in dustwrapper and rather scarce as such
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: Harper
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1926
Book Description
New York: Harper, 1926. First Edition. hardcover. A lovely copy in dustwrapper and rather scarce as such. In the first state binding consisting of chocolate-brown boards with paper labels on the front cover and spine. Only 1,000 copies were printed of this play which combines traditional theater with elements of the music hall. Neat bookplate of John Glen Martner on the front pastedown. In the scarce dustwrapper designed by Dos Passos which, except for some light soiling and a 3/4" closed tear on the front cover in the gutter, is very nice indeed.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dustwrapper : Another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding 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. Also known as the back.
soiling : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
gutter : The inside margin of a book, the edge of the pages nearing the binding.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
first state : used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part of the binding or correction of the text which has been made in later versions of the first edition print run.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
