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The Flame of Peace: A Tale of the Aztecs
by Lattimore, Deborah Nourse
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060237082
- ISBN 13
- 9780060237080
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
HarperCollins Publishers, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x8x10. Signed. First printing with number line to 1. Signed by author Debora Nourse Lattimore at verso of FFEP (facing title page), with sketch. Red cloth spine with yellow papered boards, near fine with light rubbing to edges. Spine cocked forward slightly. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with light edgewear to spine foot and fore-edge corners, small prior seller's price sticker over the original price at front inner flap. Pages bright, text unmarked.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Bin
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2017939
- Title
- The Flame of Peace: A Tale of the Aztecs
- Author
- Lattimore, Deborah Nourse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060237082
- ISBN 13
- 9780060237080
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 0x8x10
- X weight
- 17 oz
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About The Book Bin
The Book Bin is a locally owned and operated business that has been in the same family since 1983. We are an ABA- and ABAA-affiliated general-interest bookstore with two stores in Salem and Corvallis, Oregon. We have over 30,000 items listed for sale online, and a dedicated rare book room in our Salem location. Books in our rare book room cover a wide range of subjects, with a focus on science fiction, fantasy and horror, literature and poetry, metaphysics, and children's books.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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