New York: Greenberg. Very Good in Good dust jacket. [1946]. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth cover with gilt lettering has minimal wear, small faded triangle on spine under a DJ chip. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. There is some speckled foxing on edge of text block. DJ has wear at edges, some chipping and a few small holes, and has heavy toning on spine and at edges. Not price clipped. DJ now in archival sleeve. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 226 pages .

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Bookseller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 11461
Title: A Primer of Book Collecting
Author: Winterich, John T. and David A. Randall
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Publisher: Greenberg
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: [1946]
Bookseller catalogs: Books & Book Collecting;

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James F. Balsley, Bookseller

All books are warranted to be as described and genuine (unless stated otherwise in the description). Payment by check, US postal money order or cashier's check in USD will be accepted and should be made out to James F. Balsley. Checks may be held until cleared by the bank unless you are known to me. Checks must be drawn on a US bank. Credit cards are accepted through Biblio.com. Books may be returned for any reason within 10 days of receipt for a full refund of the purchase price provided the book is returned in the same condition in which it was shipped. If the return is because the description is inaccurate or other error on my part, I will also refund the postage both ways.

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James F. Balsley, Bookseller

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My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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...
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....
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...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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...