Chinatown Inside Out
by Yun, Leong Gor
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
Item Price
A$192.40A$144.30
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Barrows Mussey, 1936. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 256 pages. Signed by Patte Barham on the bookplate on the front pastedown. The book is in good condition with slight shelf wear such as slight bumping and fading to the spine. The dust jacket is in poor condition with chipping to edges, rubbing to front and back panels, and an 8cm tear going up the spine to the front cover. Interior is clean and tight. Red spine with white text. . Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jero Books and Templet Co.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030658
- Title
- Chinatown Inside Out
- Author
- Yun, Leong Gor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Barrows Mussey
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Yun, Leong Gor Chinatown Inside Out Barrows Mussey
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About the Seller
Jero Books and Templet Co.
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Santa Monica, California
About Jero Books and Templet Co.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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