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It's An Old California Custom (Signed)
by Shippey, Lee
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, NY, USA: The Vanguard Press, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 292pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; yellow design on front, yellow titles on spine. Sun faded spine, bumped ends; cloth fraying. Text block edges starting to tan, outer edge untrimmed. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper 'Best Luck Lee Shippey'. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo. Stories from the bygone days of the old California.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012486
- Title
- It's An Old California Custom (Signed)
- Author
- Shippey, Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- California, Customs, United States,
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- 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...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
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