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Sam In The Suburbs
by P.G. Wodehouse
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1925. Early Reprint. Very Good/Good. New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1925. Early American Reprint. First UK Edition was published as Sam The Sudden and the First American Edition was published by George H. Doran Company under the name Sam In The Suburbs. This copy is an early reprint of the American First Edition. Octavo. 346 pages plus advertisements.
Illustrated dust jacket is moderately soiled throughout, chipped along spine ends, and has a four inch tear tracing from top edge near front corner to near the middle of the front panel. Dampstain along top edge of rear panel which faintly echoes to rear board, though text/pastedown unaffected.
Boards are in green pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt. Some fading to spine and soiling along edges. Boards a tad bowed and corners bumped. One nick at top of spine and rear bottom edge frayed. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Sturdy in binding. A very good copy in a good only dust jacket. [Jasen - 36a].
Illustrated dust jacket is moderately soiled throughout, chipped along spine ends, and has a four inch tear tracing from top edge near front corner to near the middle of the front panel. Dampstain along top edge of rear panel which faintly echoes to rear board, though text/pastedown unaffected.
Boards are in green pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt. Some fading to spine and soiling along edges. Boards a tad bowed and corners bumped. One nick at top of spine and rear bottom edge frayed. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Sturdy in binding. A very good copy in a good only dust jacket. [Jasen - 36a].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5438
- Title
- Sam In The Suburbs
- Author
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Publisher
- A.L. Burt Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
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