5 Against the House: A Suspense Novel of youth, love and a fantastic Reno club robbery
by Finney, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/G+; black spine, yellow text; jacket has protective mylar cover, rubbing, staining, chipping at spine head and tail and in corners, a few small closed tears around edges, price clipped on front flap; boards are strong, spine slightly cocked, rubbing along bottom edges and on back; textblock has rubbing in corner of tail edge, staining on pastedowns and endpapers, otherwise clean, binding strong; pp 221; FLP Collection.
NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1284542. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1284542
- Title
- 5 Against the House: A Suspense Novel of youth, love and a fantastic Reno club robbery
- Author
- Finney, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1954
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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"...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...