Heads & Tales
by Malvina Hoffman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. Very good blue green boards with gilt lettering on spine; foxing on page edge and a few pages; head and tail of spine slightly crushed; slight shelf wear. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for name in pencil on FFEP. No dust jacket. 416pp. Printed 1937. Index. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Imperial Books and Collectibles (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037374
- Title
- Heads & Tales
- Author
- Malvina Hoffman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 9x6x0
- Weight
- 2.81 lbs
Terms of Sale
Imperial Books and Collectibles
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Imperial Books and Collectibles
Biblio member since 2012
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
About Imperial Books and Collectibles
Imperial Books and Collectibles, LLC is a partnership of retired professionals and avid collectors who are liquidating their own collections of books while assisting others to market their books both online and in a retail outlet under the "ImperialBks" banner. In business since 2010, ImperialBks has sold over ten thousand of high quality paper items through various channels with a uniformly high degree of customer satisfaction. Our mission is to treat both clients and customers like royalty, giving great value and personal attention to each.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....