Captain Samson A. B.
by Douglas, Gavin
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. Ex-Library. 1937 G. P. Putnam's Sons. REBOUND in library buckram. Book has been re-cased in Art Deco patterned blue library cloth binding with gold spine lettering. Very durable binding. Typed blurb pasted on front free endpaper. Title page and last page have library name in punched letters. Card pocket on rear endpaper. Remains of removed date sheet on rear free endpaper. Library stamps on page edges. Two other pages have small library stamps or markings. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding getting loose in a few places in the text, with webbing peeking at page group divisions. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing. 15 pages are dog eared. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Except for some light handling smudges in the margins of some pages, the pages clean and unmarked. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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Details
- Seller
- SmarterRat Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8220
- Title
- Captain Samson A. B.
- Author
- Douglas, Gavin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Fiction,Thrillers and Suspense
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Thrillers and Suspense;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...