ALABAM'
by CLARKE, Donald Henderson
- Used
- Good
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's maroon cloth with decorative spine and upper board lettering, octavo, pp. 320. Old Atlanta book store ticket at bottom of rear paste-down. Shelf and handling wear. Page edges faded and discolored over the decades. FAIR-only color-illustrated dust jacket a bit weary from pre-mylar life, with tears and rubs. Loss of paper at crown area of spine and top edge of rear panel. Jacket protected now from further wear by a new sheet of archival Brodart. A rumination on this book: The lightness of the book and the fact that there is no price on the dust jacket make us wonder if it is a Book of the Month Club copy. However, the war-time publishing year, the absence of a publisher's blind stamp on the rear board, and the presence of the Atlanta retail store sticker on rear paste down make us think it is not a Book Club. Therefore, we'll settle on "possible" Book Club.
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Details
- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002443
- Title
- ALABAM'
- Author
- CLARKE, Donald Henderson
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial Press, [1942]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...