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Takeoff
by Kornbluth, Cyril M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/Poor
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. VG/Poor. Shilstone, Arthur. Tale of espionage set in the middle of the US space program during the Cold War era. Jacket design by Arthur Shilstone.A Book Club Edition (BCE) from the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club, this hardcover from 1952 is in VG condition in a poor DJ. Book is very clean, with light tanning, heavier to endpapers, & foxing to outside page edges. Ffep has a torn corner. NO writing/underlining/highlighting; NOT ex-lib. The front cover art on the DJ is intact, but a large chunk is missing from rear, other edgewear & chipping. Please see our photos--they show the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images! Description & photos copyright Gargoyle Books 2021. Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Seller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 018299
- Title
- Takeoff
- Author
- Kornbluth, Cyril M
- Illustrator
- Shilstone, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition (BCE)
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- SPACE EXPLORATION BARSTOW CALIFORNIA SCI-FI SCIENCE FICTION SPY SPYING ESPIONAGE GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction-Fantasy;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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"...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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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