THE BLACKBIRDERS
by Hughes, Dorothy B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Fair in Good dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hard cover published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in 1943. Wartime edition. Black covers with orange lettering on spine. Covers are scuffed, and bottom front corner is creased across the whole corner. Corners of covers are bumped some, and are worn and frayed. Spine is cocked and has some slight creasing lengthwise. Bottom edges of covers have some wear, and side edge of front cover has some small stains. Inside front cover has some scraping, as if something was glued on and removed, and has some stamping in upper corner. Front endpaper has an embossed name and some stains in upper corner. Rear endpaper is creased lengthwise. Book is in fair condition. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover, is missing some small pieces at ends of the spine, and has some scuffing. DJ is in good minus condition. Small 8vo, 250 pages, .9 lb.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 250 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inside the Covers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MSH10071
- Title
- THE BLACKBIRDERS
- Author
- Hughes, Dorothy B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan & Pearce
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Mystery, New Mexico, Slavery, Slavers, Slave Traffic
Terms of Sale
Inside the Covers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Inside the Covers
Biblio member since 2011
Lancaster, Texas
About Inside the Covers
History and Texana books, along with signed first editions.
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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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....