Simple Stakes a Claim
by Langston. Hughes
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 9997406044
- ISBN 13
- 9789997406040
- Seller
-
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York & Toronto: RINEHART & Company, Ltd., January 1957. First Edition. Cloth . Very Good/Good. Octavo. First US edition in edgeworn jacket with especially heavy wear top & bottom of spine. Also heavy chipping to top edge of rear panel. Front flap is not clipped. DJ verso has tanned spine. Beige textured paper covered boards with green & black lettering along spine. Slightly darkened spine and darkened board edges. Mild tanning to end pages front and back. Tanned by sun & dust stained textblock top & bottom edges and deckled fore-edge. Interior pages are likewise tanned at margins. [191 pages]
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Details
- Bookseller
- A Cappella Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 289121
- Title
- Simple Stakes a Claim
- Author
- Langston. Hughes
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 9997406044
- ISBN 13
- 9789997406040
- Publisher
- RINEHART & Company, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- New York & Toronto
- Date Published
- January 1957
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About the Seller
A Cappella Books
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Atlanta, Georgia
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A Cappella Books is a full service used, new & out-of-print bookstore located in the heart of Atlanta's bohemian district, Little 5 Points, since 1989. We stock a general selection of some 20 to 30, 000 paperbacks & hardcovers, ranging from the common to the quite scarce. Our specialties reflect the personality of our neighborhood and, to varying degrees, our staff. But don't be fooled, we really have something for almost everybody who loves books. Come see us.
A Cappella Books is a full service used, new & out-of-print bookstore located in the heart of Atlanta's bohemian district, Little 5 Points, since 1989. We stock a general selection of some 20 to 30, 000 paperbacks & hardcovers, ranging from the common to the quite scarce. Our specialties reflect the personality of our neighborhood and, to varying degrees, our staff. But don't be fooled, we really have something for almost everybody who loves books. Come see us.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...