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The Sky's the Limit: A Defense of the Earth
by Nichols, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393028658
- ISBN 13
- 9780393028652
- Seller
-
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket/Very Good. Illustrated by Nichols, John (photographs). Signed by author, with no date or inscription, at the front free endpaper. Pages crisp and clean except for moderate foxing along the head edge; binding is square and tight, full cream cloth cover lightly foxing around head edges and gently rubbed at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent. Dustjacket shows small, shallow wrinkles at the free corners, spine head, and top edges, a a small chip at the bottom rear, and a few scattered rubbing marks and scratches, otherwise crisp, attractive, not price clipped, now protected in a clear sleeve.; Signed by Author.
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- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 066971
- Title
- The Sky's the Limit: A Defense of the Earth
- Author
- Nichols, John
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Nichols, John (photographs)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393028658
- ISBN 13
- 9780393028652
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed by Author;
Terms of Sale
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
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About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
The Haunted Bookshop is an open shop with over 40,000 quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian titles for students, scholars, collectors, artists, families and children. The store has been in business for over 35 years, now in a historic home near downtown Iowa City. Our open hours are 10-8 daily.
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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