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The Mad Professor - 2 Volume Set
by Sudermann, Hermann
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good+
- Seller
-
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First printing (no additional printings listed). Two volume set, without box. Translated from the German by Isabel Leighton and Otto P. Schinnerer. Two-tone green boards with black lettering. Top edges stained black. Very light shelfwear. The spine title of vol. 2 is a bit smeared. The top edge stain of vol. 1 is faded. Otherwise fine, unmarked copies in tight bindings. The dust jackets have edgewear and chips at their spine heads; also small chips on the back panels. Each has a puncture at the rear joint. The spines are a bit sunned. The jacket prices, $5.00 for the set, are present on the front flaps.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006063
- Title
- The Mad Professor - 2 Volume Set
- Author
- Sudermann, Hermann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Horace Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Banjo Booksellers
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
Glossary
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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