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Doctor Serocold: A Page from His Day-Book
by Helen Ashton
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930. Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930. Stated First Edition. Octavo; [viii], 305pp. Tan dust jacket with darker brown bordering and illustration; book in black cloth with gilt lettering. Decorative endpapers. Price-clipped jacket shows a clean but lengthy tear across front, re-affixed on interior with a small piece of tape, along with some chipping to corners and spine ends and general smudging and toning. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with some fading along bottom. Opens easily to between a few gatherings, but binding is holding. Pages unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9524
- Title
- Doctor Serocold: A Page from His Day-Book
- Author
- Helen Ashton
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1930
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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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....
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- First Edition
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