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IN ZANZIBAR
by Paine, Ralph D
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston:Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2018/09/0_img_0529.jpg. Boston:Houghton Mifflin and Company. 1925. 1st edition. 327pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yellow boards lightly soiled with light wear to edges and spine ends. Page edges soiled. Internally, end pages slightly age-toned with a previous owners signature and date inked to the top of first free end page, otherwise pages clean and bright. The dust jacket is in good+ condition. Still in one piece, but soiled with wear to edges and folds, including small chips and tears. It is not price clipped. *"During one night in Zanzibar there occured to certain members of the crew of the U. S. cruiser Toledo a series of most extraordinary events. 'It was a night,' writes Mr. Paine, 'burdened with consequences, prodigal of valor, curiously entangled with the destinies of an ebony elephant and a phantom lady, with a one eyed Arav shipmaster and a benevolent lion.'"...dj
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24138
- Title
- IN ZANZIBAR
- Author
- Paine, Ralph D
- Illustrator
- http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2018/09/0_img_0529.jpg
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston:Houghton Mifflin Company
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; RALPH D. PAINE;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
Massachusetts residents must add 6.25% state sales tax. Methods of payment: Visa, MC, Discover, Check. Postage. USPS Media Mail is $4.00 for first book, $1.00 for each additional book. UPS and USPS Priority will be at cost. Some books, as noted in offerings, will be at cost. Overseas postage will be at cost. All items returnable with prior arrangement up to 10 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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