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The Abyss of Wonders
by Sheehan, Perley Poore; JohnT. Brooks (Illustrations); P. Schuyler Miller (Introduction)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus, hardcover with red cloth boards in a slipcase, octavo, 191pp., with illustrations, #78 of 1500. Book condition is Very Good, Slipcase is Good. Slipcase has sunning, water damage, chipping , corner and edge wear, book has previous price points in ink on endpapers, some corner and edge wear and a small slash on the spine otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked. No DJ.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s00029454
- Title
- The Abyss of Wonders
- Author
- Sheehan, Perley Poore; JohnT. Brooks (Illustrations); P. Schuyler Miller (Introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Polaris Press
- Place of Publication
- Reading, PA
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, Fairy Tale, Gobi Desert, Theosophy
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About the Seller
Common Crow Books
Biblio member since 2005
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Common Crow Books
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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.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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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