Spacehounds Of Ipc: A Tale Of The Interplanetary Corporation (First Printing In Dust Jacket, Plated Signed Issue)
by Smith, Edward E. "Doc"; Jacket And Illustrations By A. J. Donnell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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About This Item
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 257 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. One Of 2008 Copies Of The First Printing (With 1947 Date And All Interior Illustrations Present, "First Edition" Stated On Copyright Page), Of Which 300 Had An Inserted Numbered Plate (This One Being #243). The First Book From Fantasy Press. This First Issue Copy In The Proper First Issue Dust Jacket With Only Four Titles On Back. (The Bibliography Of This Book Is Complex: A Reprint Of 1000 Copies In 1947 Dropped The Interior Illustrations But Not The Date, And A Later 1949 Reprint Of 2510 Copies Also Lacked The Interiors, Except For 985 Bound With Only The Frontispiece. All Later Issue Dust Wrappers List Eleven Titles On The Rear Panel). Book Very Good, Light Wear, Gilt Bright And Clean, With Fading Around Top And Bottom Bottom Of Spinet. Dj Unfaded, Not Price Clipped, With Wear At Corners And Edges, 1" Closed Tear At Right Top Corner Of Front Panel, Tiny Tears And Minute Losses At Ends Of Spine, 1/4" Open Tear At Top Of Rear Panel.
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- 045348
- Title
- Spacehounds Of Ipc: A Tale Of The Interplanetary Corporation (First Printing In Dust Jacket, Plated Signed Issue)
- Author
- Smith, Edward E. "Doc"; Jacket And Illustrations By A. J. Donnell
- Format/Binding
- Blue Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fantasy Press
- Place of Publication
- Reading
- Date Published
- 1947
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare And Unusual Books; "Literature: Science Fiction;
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- 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...
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