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The Jaybird
by Kantor, Mackinlay
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, NY, USA: Coward-McCann, 1932. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 294pp. Bound in blue cloth-covered boards with white titles front and spine. 12mo. Cloth moderately rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, spine sunned, a little faded at edges. Text block edges darkened. Hint of toning on endpapers. Previous owner's attractive bookplate on front free endpaper. In its original worn, creased and torn dust jacket. The jacket is in four pieces, with minor loss, and browned. Jacket now protected in a Mylar-style protected sleeve. Mackinlay Kantor (born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor) was an American journalist, screenwriter and novelist, writing more than thirty novels, several set during the American Civil War. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his 1955 novel, Andersonville. We have many of his novels and other works in stock - please inquire for discounts if considering ordering more than one title.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017050
- Title
- The Jaybird
- Author
- Kantor, Mackinlay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Forgotten Authors, Fiction, Novels, Vintage Books
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
Biblio member since 2021
nr Canterbury, Kent
About BookAddiction
Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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....
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