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The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
by MacLeish, Archibald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1965. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full navy cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, gold endpapers. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. . Head and heel of spine are very slightly rubbed, top edge of front cover is faded, front endpaper is slightly rippled, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Price clipped dust jacket is rubbed on covers and extremities, creased at the top and bottom edges of the front panel and has short tears and chips, now protected by mylar. VERY GOOD+/ FAIR. . B&W Photographs. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 101 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20020
- Title
- The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
- Author
- MacLeish, Archibald
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Biography and Memoirs, History, Photography
Terms of Sale
Round Table Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
Round Table Books, LLC lists rare, beautiful and interesting books. All books are described accurately, packed carefully and shipped promptly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.
Glossary
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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