Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by author on half-title page. Liberty Book Club Edition. "The stories contained in this volume were written in the 1930s and 40s during the Spanish Civil War and World War II." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Previous owner's name on head of front free endpaper. Spine is slightly loose, small bumps on spine ends, spine is slightly darkened, pages are tanned but clean. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has 2-inch piece missing from spine tail, 1/2-inch piece missing from spine head, rough tear in center of back cover, small grease spot on back flap, normal shelf wear, lightly tanned. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 238 pages; Signed by Author .

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Seller: Good Books In The Woods (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 52481
Title: Departure And Other Stories
Author: Fast, Howard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Edition: Book Club Edition
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1949

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Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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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....
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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...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...