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Heads and Tales
by Malvina Hoffman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1936. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, maps on endpapers. Elaborately illustrated with B&W photographs. . Head and heel of spine worn with minor loss, edges rubbed, gift inscription on dedication page, otherwise unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD. . B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 416 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10445
- Title
- Heads and Tales
- Author
- Malvina Hoffman
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Asia, Field Museum of Chicago, Primitive sculpture, Non-Fiction;, Art;, Racial Types, Race Relations, Anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science, Medicine & Technology;
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.
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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