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THE SPECTATOR BIRD (DJ Protected by a Brand New, Clear, Acid-Free Mylar Cover)
by Stegner, Wallace Earle
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385078900
- ISBN 13
- 9780385078900
- Seller
-
Livonia, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Trade Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385078900 . ; Half black cloth cover over white patterned boards has light wear to the spine caps and toning along the top and bottom edges but clean and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. R10 code appears in the lower right corner of the last page (214) as called for. Dust jacket has shelf wear but is clean clean, bright, and overall very good. DJ is price clipped but otherwise meets all first edition issue points. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust. ); 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches; 214 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1862
- Title
- THE SPECTATOR BIRD (DJ Protected by a Brand New, Clear, Acid-Free Mylar Cover)
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace Earle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Trade Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385078900
- ISBN 13
- 9780385078900
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, Ny
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0385078900
Terms of Sale
Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2020
Livonia, Michigan
About Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
Sage Rare & Collectible Books specializes in out-of-print, scarce, and rare books as well as signed and First Editions.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
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