The Eater of Darkness
by Robert M. Coates
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/Fair
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. Hardcover. Good-/Fair. First American edition. Yellow cloth boards stamped in black and silver. Boards are soiled and worn. Fore-edge of text block stained (not affecting page-faces). Interior is unmarked; a few pages have spots of soiling, else clean. Dust jacket is in fair condition: front panel is chipped; rear panel is very grubby and has damage; old repairs on reverse; not price clipped ($2.50); in a clear archival sleeve. The rear panel of the jacket shows a biographical sketch of the author by Malcolm Cowley. 238 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. Rare in dust jacket. Robert Coates' first novel, The Eater of Darkness, was first published in Paris by Contact Editions in 1926. This is the first American edition, as issued by the Macaulay Company.
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- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013630
- Title
- The Eater of Darkness
- Author
- Robert M. Coates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macaulay Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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