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The Big Eye
by Ehrlich, Max
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Steelton, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. This book club edition is in Fine condition with a Very Good+ dust jacket (click on photo). This science fiction classic concerns earth's last days as it's about to collide with another planet, and how individuals as well as nations prepare for the end, regaining their values and humanity in the process. The book is bound in green cloth with red spine titles and top-edge red stain. The binding is tight and pages are clean, bright, and sparkling throughout. The dust jacket has some edge rubbing, tiny tears and light shelf rubbing at spine tips and corners, plus a tiny hole on the spine. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches and includes 221 pages.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Seller
- Grimalkin Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 002304
- Title
- The Big Eye
- Author
- Ehrlich, Max
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Science Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Grimalkin Books
Grimalkin Books is located in Steelton, Pennsylvania, the first town south of Harrisburg. We specialize in older, unusual books and sets, often literary, artistic, or historical. "Grimalkin" is old English for an old gray cat, mainly because the owner, Bob Amsel, is a cat lover. All books subject to prior sale. Payment must be received within 10 days of the order or item will be returned to stock. We accept money orders, bank checks, personal checks (allow time to clear), PayPal or MasterCard/Visa through Biblio's credit card processing service. International orders must be paid in US dollars and can be paid via PayPal, credit card (through ABE), or International Postal Money Order. Your purchase will be carefully packaged to protect it during shipping. Books may not be returned just because the buyer has changed his mind. Only books with actual defects that were not mentioned by the seller in the listing may be returned. Please insure returns for their full value.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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"...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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