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LITTLE STEEL.
by Sinclair, Upton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/near very good
- Seller
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., (1938). first edition. hardcover. Very good/near very good. Octavo, beige cloth covers with red titles; top edge stained red. Some browning on endpapers; a few spots on fore edge of top cover, else very good. Unclipped dust jacket has printed price of $2.50. Dust jacket spine faded with chipping at head and foot of spine. "...Upton Sinclair dramatizes the struggle of Little Steel -- the independent steel companies -- to maintain the open shop after the capitulation of the Unnited States Steel Corporation to the CIO." --from the dust jacket. 082504A
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000020990
- Title
- LITTLE STEEL.
- Author
- Sinclair, Upton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- near very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1938)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Alkahest Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Alkahest Books
Biblio member since 2012
Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
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