NABATI POETRY: THE ORAL POETRY OF ARABIA | (UCal Press, 1985) hardcover

Description: NABATI POETRY : THE ORAL POETRY OF ARABIASAAD ABDULLAH SOWAYANUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS | 1985 | HARDCOVERVERY GOOD CONDITION$49 PLUS FREE SHIPPING This is a rare and difficult book to find even in a library. I am uncertain as how to price it, but I know that the prices I am encountering are way too high for this book. They reflect how difficult it is to find this book, but that's it. So I'm going with a much lower price so that if somebody really has a use for this book, it's available to them at an affordable price. Using eBay grading, I have grades this as VERY GOOD. That's because the book is in excellent condition but the dustjacket is only in GOOD condition. I would grade the dustjacket as GOOD. That's a low grade.I would grade the cloth cover as FINE. The binding is EXCELLENT.The pages are VERY FINE. Dustjacket: when I assign a low grade to a dustjacket, I don't catalog every flaw I see. Please look at the high-res photos if you want to minutely exam its flaws. In general, I see six tears: two on the front cover, three on the back, on on the front flap, and one on the back flap. There is a large area on the front cover where the price sticker was affixed and now has discolored glue remnants. The dustjacket is also rolling away from the edges on both the front and back covers. I also see a dent in the front cover top right. The gloss or paper coating is rubbing off on both the front and back covers. Inks are still bright. You can see this when viewing the paper askance to a light. There are other problems like a few creases and a dark mark on the back cover. Cloth cover: I would grade this fine because there is a dent on the top left of the front cover and the spine cloth cover is rolling in at both the top and bottom. Otherwise, the cloth cover looks excellent. The dye is very rich and the surface smooth. The metallic inks are still lustrous and with no flaking or rubbing off. The covers lie flat and are straight out to their edges. The outer corners are pristine: no dings, bumps, or dye missing. The spine is straight and perpendicular to the covers. Binding: The glued binding is excellent. This book has not been read and never really been opened, so the binding feels tight when the book is opened. All pages are firmly attached with no loose or missing pages. Pages: the pages look great EXCEPT for the owner's name written in ink on the inside front page (blurred out in picture 7). Pages are cream-colored to near-white. Except for the owner's name on the inside front page, there are no marks, highlights, underlines, writing, tears, rips, bends, creases on any of the pages. Page edges are in excellent condition EXCEPT there is a very small ding around page 10 that you can just barely make out when looking at the long edge of the pages head-on (see picture 4). SHIPPING This book will be shipped USPS Media Mail in a cardboard box. The book will be bagged in plastic and their will be sufficient packing material to protect the book while in transit.

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