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Wake of the Red Witch
by Roark, Garland
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Fair (in mylar)
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. A working copy only, with a very distressed, abused, and heavy worn dust jacket; Former owner's ink signature and address on half title verso; Light pulling apart at front gutter but all pages intact, usual age toning and wear, else textblock is clean and tight. Cloth binding with bmped head/foot of spine, bumped corners, sunned spine. 434p.. Book Club Edition. Blue Cloth. Good+/Fair (in mylar). Illus. by Lynd Ward Jacket Art. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Seller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SB12697
- Title
- Wake of the Red Witch
- Author
- Roark, Garland
- Illustrator
- Lynd Ward Jacket Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fair (in mylar)
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Ships Fiction, Sailors Fiction, Fiction, Sailing Fiction, Men at Sea Fiction
Terms of Sale
Clausen Books, RMABA
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
Established July 1, 1946. Member- Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association. Now exclusively on-line. Used - Old - Rare - Out-of-print - Antiquarian; CERTIFIED APPRAISALS * Visit our homepage at www.clausenbooks.com
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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