Avon Fantasy Reader: No. 1 (February 1947)
by Wollheim, Donald & Murray Leinster, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, H.G. Wells, Clark Ashton Smith, H. Russell Wakefield, Lord Dunsa
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
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About This Item
Avon Book Company. Used - Good. 1947. Octavo. 130 pp. Noticeable shelf wear, creasing, chipping, and some smudging to wraps, with a small inked notation to front wrap. Spine cocked. Previous owner's inscription to editor's preface page and title page. Pages quite toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Good condition. (Subject: Fiction.)
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Q22070
- Title
- Avon Fantasy Reader: No. 1 (February 1947)
- Author
- Wollheim, Donald & Murray Leinster, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, H.G. Wells, Clark Ashton Smith, H. Russell Wakefield, Lord Dunsa
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Avon Book Company
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...