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ONE CLEAR CALL
by Sinclair, Upton 07c
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- NEAR FINE book, GOOD-VG DJ. 1st edition. 8.5"x5.5", 629pp.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Viking. NEAR FINE book, GOOD-VG DJ. 1st edition. 8.5"x5.5", 629pp.. 1948. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, GOOD-VG DJ(in Brodart). Tight. Book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. FINE inside. DJ price $3.95 . DJ clean, whole & attractive but is edgeworn & spine is sunned. ALL CORNERS with 1/4" chips. Title on spine totally sunned out. Book has only minor flaws in the covers and fore & bottom text block edges. Top edge tinted a light gray, likely as clean as new. Other two edges with few small stained spots. Front cover with small light spot on lower front. Otherwise quite nice cover. No scuffed extrems. No aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. The 9th in the 11 vol "World's End" series. The last two pages are a concise printing history of the series. It states this 9th vol had only 16,000 printed. Vol 8 was next fewest at 36,000. "The Jungle" was the most influential of Sinclair's 90 odd books. .
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001659
- Title
- ONE CLEAR CALL
- Author
- Sinclair, Upton 07c
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NEAR FINE book, GOOD-VG DJ. 1st edition. 8.5"x5.5", 629pp.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- NEAR FINE book, GOOD-VG DJ(in Brodart). Tight. Book tends to stay, closed when stood on its spine. FINE inside. DJ price $3.95
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa;
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- Sunned
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- New
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
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- Fine
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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....
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