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The Kingslayer
by Hubbard, L. Ron
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company Inc. ( FPCI), 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing, paperback book is tight clean and square. Very gently bumped to head and foot of spine. Blue wraps clean with toning to lower edge. Text block clean, with toning to bottom edges of first and last handful of pages, other pages very clean.Has previous owners name and notation in red pen, and previous booksellers pencil price to FEP. Feels carefully read. Near Fine condition. Issued with jacket that has bold colours, with some minor rubbing to the fore-edges with a little toning, including slightly heavier toning to the rear white panel. Overall a very good close to near fine copy. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a quality addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. An very nice copy of this first printing title, extremely scarce in the paperback edition especially in this condition. Contains The Kingslayer, The Beast and The Invaders novelettes. An attractive copy for a Hubbard collector. Comes from the estate of Roger Earnshaw, SF collector, well known at British conventions and fandom.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Durdles Books (IOBA)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007432
- Title
- The Kingslayer
- Author
- Hubbard, L. Ron
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Fantasy Publishing Company Inc. ( FPCI)
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1949
- Pages
- 248
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.54 lbs
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Durdles Books (IOBA)
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About the Seller
Durdles Books (IOBA)
Biblio member since 2018
Birmingham, West Midlands
About Durdles Books (IOBA)
Durdles Books is an online bookshop that specialises in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Modern Firsts and Genre Fiction. We also have books in many other categories and think our stock is both varied and interesting. We are constantly busy sourcing new stock in great condition, as collectors ourselves we appreciate that there is nothing like finding a lovely copy of a book that is on "the list". We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), so you can be assured of our commitment to good bookselling practices and customer service.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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.
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