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King Conan
by Robert E. Howard
- Used
- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire
Item Price:
US$75.00
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About This Item
First hardcover edition, published by Gnome Press, 1953. No dust jacket. 256 pages. 8vo. Red cloth covered boards. Includes five stories with each one having an introduction paragraph written by P. Schuyler Miller & John D. Clark. Cover boards are flat. Cover corners are straight and not bumped or creased. Lght edge wear to the heel of the spine, and to the bottom edges of the boards. Author name, title, and cover design imprinted in black on cover and spine still crisp and not rubbed or worn. Beautifully detailed map on the pastedown-ffep, both front and back. Text pages are clean, with no writing. There is a former owner's label on the ffep, a small label about an inch long, 1/4 inch tall with a typewritten name. Edges of the text pages are clean, binding is tight and square. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory, not stock photos!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 20-438
- Title
- King Conan
- Author
- Robert E. Howard
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gnome Press
- Date published
- 1953
- Keywords
- conan, gnome press, fantasy press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fantasy;
Terms of Sale
Hopkins Books
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
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About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- ffep
- A common abbreviation for Front Free EndPaper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...[more]
- 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...[more]
- heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...[more]
- crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...[more]
- 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....[more]
- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...[more]
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