The Adventures of Tintin: The Shooting Star
by Herge
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0416926509
- ISBN 13
- 9780416926507
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. (1968). Hardcover. 0416926509 . A 3" split to spine at head of front joint. Moderate wear and rubbing to ends of spine and to corners and edges of boards. A 2" x 1" chip to the lower blank corner of one leaf (pages 33-34), without any loss of the printed area. Moderate creasing to a couple of leaves. No signatures.; 1968 reprint (the first edition in English was printed in 1961). 62 pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 296 x 223mm. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12918
- Title
- The Adventures of Tintin: The Shooting Star
- Author
- Herge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0416926509
- ISBN 13
- 9780416926507
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1968)
- Keywords
- 0416926509
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...