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Blood on the Moon
by Tully, Jim
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good -
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. Early reprint. Hardcover. Very good -. 350 pp. Octavo. [21 cm]. Green cloth over boards with red stamped title on front board and spine. Deckled edges. Top and bottom edges are heavily sunned and rubbed, most noticeable at front board. Boards peeking through all corners, and boards are exposed at bottom edge of front board, tail of spine, and rear board. Head of spine is frayed with boards exposed. Spine slightly rolled. First few leaves are soiled and toned. Dust jacket is in good + condition, with a small loss to one corner and more noticeable losses along top edge. Loss at head of spine measures 3 cm at longest point. 10 cm closed tear at front panel spine edge and spine edge at rear panel has been repaired with tape at interior. Reprint from Grosset & Dunlap, but copyright page remains unchanged from first edition, likely to save on costs. Writing long before the beat generation, this is Tully's final installment in his five volume autobiographical series he named "The Underworld". He recounts his youth spent as a street kid and the brawls, adventures, and mishaps that ensued there.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64430
- Title
- Blood on the Moon
- Author
- Tully, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early reprint
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- early 1900s; memoir; history; autofiction;
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
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