On the Bottom
by Commander Edward Ellsberg
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Templeton, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Literary Guild of America, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Not Signed. Reprint. This Literary Guild of America edition was published in the same year as the 1st Edition. This copy is over 80 years old, has been well taken care of and is in very good condition. Its construction is unlike most of the poorly made book club editions. The cloth covered boards and matching top stain add up to a handsome edition possibly as desirable and rare as the first edition. The text block is solid, clean and square. Endpapers are clear of markings with NO previous owner's signature and have drawings of the submarines on them. Spine tight, boards rigid and tips pointed. There is no book club deboss on the rear cover. The cover has chipping and wear along both bottom edges. There is loss on the outside front hinge especially at top and bottom of spine. The back cover has wear and loss along the top of the cover and the bottom of the cover up to a 1/4" by 1/4" There is a crease along the back of the cover. The jacket is in very good condition with colors on the cover, just with chipping and loss a hint of wear at bottom edges and at top and bottom of spine and a dime size loss of the middle spine with fading of the spine. It looks handsome in its shiny new plastic cover. Literary Guild Magazine for December 1929 included. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing..
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- Seller
- Winding Road Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000860
- Title
- On the Bottom
- Author
- Commander Edward Ellsberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Literary Guild of America
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- History Submarines
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Winding Road Books
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About Winding Road Books
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Deboss
- An imprinted decoration or mark on the outside cover of a book. Publishers will press a design or mark into a book's cover for...
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