Destination: Universe!
by Van Vogt, A. E
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Good+
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Eyre & Spottiswood, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good+. Signed. Ex-library. First British edition, following the American (true) first of 1952 from Pellegrini. Scarce. Inscribed by Van Vogt at half title. Light edgewear, bumped to spine tips and lower fore-edge corners. Spine cocked forward slightly. Binding reinforced at inner hinges with cloth tape, and cracked to mull at half title; sound through text. Dust jacket lightly scuffed and edgeworn, with tape remnants at inner flaps. Tape ghosts to endsheets, and margins of lending information remaining at FFEP. Interior foxed to first and last few pages. Text unmarked.
Synopsis
Berkley Medallion #N2814. Cover art by Richard Powers.
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Details
- Seller
- The Book Bin
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- Seller's Inventory #
- BBS-2013202
- Title
- Destination: Universe!
- Author
- Van Vogt, A. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswood
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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