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The Battle of The Horizons
by Thompson, Sylvia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. VG. 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition bound in green cloth. A Very Good copy in a Fair to Good dust jacket. The book has light dust soiling on its covers. Soiling t o the edges of its upper page block. Tiny rubs to the corners. Former owner's name and address are inked on the front endpaper. The dust jac ket is heavily chipped and frayed at its corners and edges. Chipping a long the head and heel of the spine. Dust soiling to its spine and pan els. Heavy rubs to the folds. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dearly Departed Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15539
- Title
- The Battle of The Horizons
- Author
- Thompson, Sylvia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1928
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction Hardcover;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dearly Departed Books
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Alliance, Ohio
About Dearly Departed Books
Selling books since 1978. We specialize in SF, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Western & Pulp Fiction. With an inventory of more than 35,000 Hardcover 1st editions, Vintage Paperbacks , Pulp Magazines & general antiquarian books. Store front open by chance or appointment.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- 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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