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New York Today
by Agnes Rothery
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Good
- Seller
-
Denver, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Prentice-Hall, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. First edition. With illustrations by Norman Nisbet. Rubbing to faces of jacket with chipping, creases and tears along the edges. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Corner bumps to boards with mild fading at the top. Tanning pages. Binding is tight with slightly rounded spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sparrow's Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05196
- Title
- New York Today
- Author
- Agnes Rothery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Date Published
- 1951
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About the Seller
Sparrow's Bookshop
Biblio member since 2021
Denver, Colorado
About Sparrow's Bookshop
Sparrow's Bookshop is a Denver based vintage & rare bookstore specializing in hard-to-find items, unique titles and first editions. Member IOBA.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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.
- 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....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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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