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SECRETARIAT FACTOR: The Story of a Multimillion-Dollar Breeding Industry
by Kiernan, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0385149883
- ISBN 13
- 9780385149884
- Seller
-
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. 204 pp. Original black paper covered boards w/ gilt title on brown cloth spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. DJ lightly soiled and foxed. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10445SPEQ
- Title
- SECRETARIAT FACTOR: The Story of a Multimillion-Dollar Breeding Industry
- Author
- Kiernan, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385149883
- ISBN 13
- 9780385149884
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- SPORTS EQUESTRIAN EQUINE EQUITATION ANIMALS RACE HORSES SECRETARIAT 1970 1989 THOROUGHBRED RACEHORSE 1973 TRIPLE CROWN WINNER HORSE RACING INDUSTRY BUSINESS HORSE BREEDING OUTDOORS RECREATION AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES NONFICTION GENERAL ILLUSTRATED P
- Bookseller catalogs
- Industry; Animals; Sports - Equestrian; Sports;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Shoemaker Booksellers
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
Established in 1992, we are family owned and operated. We strive to provide excellent customer service and our inventory is hand picked for the best quality and subject matter. Our diverse inventory of used, rare and out of print books, as well as ephemera, covers most areas of interest and favors more the uncommon or unusual titles.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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