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Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. First American Edition/First Printing/First Issue Dust Jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION stated on copyright page, verso title page. 1946 stated on both copyright & title page. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Boards are firm & straight. Engraved maroon lettering on spine & matching Borzoi logo on back board are entirely unfaded, clear, & intact. A couple of small stains on spine & front board. Minor tanning to top edges of both boards. Minor fraying along one small strip of front board's bottom edge. Extremely small-scale pilling of cloth on both boards. Notable bumping to both ends of spine. Some spotting to top of text block. Side & bottom of text block look clear & attractive. Binding is tight overall - very slightly less-so where text-block meets either board. A couple of very small stains on front pastedown. Areas of staining & small pieces of residue remaining on FFEP (opposite front pastedown). Residue appears to be from removed bookplate, sticker, or similar. Vertical staining to half of final page of text, p. 154, darkening text but not ruining text's legibility. Novel's entire 154 pages of text are present, including novel's correct last line, but copy's RFEP - in addition to the 1 page immediately preceding it - have been cut out. While RFEP would be blank, the nature of the preceding missing page remains unknown. No writing, markings, stickers, bookplates, or similar found inside book. All text (w/ exception of aforementioned staining on p. 154) appears 100% clean, clear, legible, & unfaded. Pieces of residue & areas of abrasion present on rear pastedown. Not a single stamp or other library marking exists anywhere in or on this copy, so unlikely to be ex-library. Residue & abrasions thus likely due to removed stickers, bookplates, tape, etc. ORIGINAL dust jacket. Jacket currently consists of 4 separate, unattached pieces, due to splitting along vertical creases between each panel & flap. Mylar covering alone now holds dust jacket together. Jacket appears to have been horizontally folded into thirds at some point, leaving creases. Prior owner had both glued & taped stiff backing material to jacket, which was later removed. Significant abrasions, chipping, open & closed tears, splitting, residue, & residual black tape along the top of jacket as result. Despite past, rough mishandling, dust jacket remains mostly complete & almost entirely legible. Foxing to much of jacket. Unclipped. Original $2.00 net price still visible on front flap, albeit in slightly broken type (presumably from tape abrasion). Overall, a solid & exceptionally rare copy in first! Additional images available upon request. Please don't hesitate to message me for any further information!. N° de ref. del artículo 15
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