Grain Race
by Villiers, Alan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾". First printing; Scribner's seal and 'A' present on copyright page. Turquoise cloth with gilt titles. Boards clean and solid, edges gently rubbed. Spine square and solid, binding sound. Text block toned; front end papers and paste downs toned. Contents clean. DJ not price clipped, but with tear at corner once bearing price; otherwise whole. Toned, edges rubbed with a few short closed tears and minor accompanying creasing. Spine head and heel with shallow chipping. A solid copy, scarce in jacket. Photographs available upon request..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Small World Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 068246
- Title
- Grain Race
- Author
- Villiers, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- SAILING SHIPS
- Bookseller catalogs
- ForEbay; Above50ForSale;
- Size
- 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾"
Terms of Sale
Small World Books, LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Small World Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2011
Rochester, New York
About Small World Books, LLC
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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