Such is Life
by Collins, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- Seller
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. First Edition. Very Good+/Good. Clean green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Tiny bump to top edge of front board. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean red top-stained page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 394 pgs. Dustjacket is lightly soiled, not price clipped, with chips and scrapes. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. An engaging tale about the people who lived on the rugged Australian ranges and deserts in the 1880's. 8vo. Fiction..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015977
- Title
- Such is Life
- Author
- Collins, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- NOVEL FICTION AUSTRALIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australia;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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