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Double Star (First Edition Stated, Priced Dust Jacket)
by Heinlein, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Book/Good Dustjacket
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1956. First Edition (stated) 1st Printing. Black Boards. Good Book/Good Dustjacket. Stated First Edition. Black Boards Lettered In White. Hugo Award Winner 1956. A Fairly Clean, Tight Ex-Library Copy. New Endpapers With Some Glue/Paper Traces, A Little Wrinkling Where The Charge Slip Was Attached, Page Edges Very Dusty, Binding A Little Cracked At Page 30/31 With 1/4" Yellow Spots On A Few Pages. Dust Jacket Is First Issue, Bright, Clean, And Almost Unworn, Not Price Clipped ($2.95), With "The Long Tomorrow" On Rear Panel. Rear Panel Clean Except For Those Faint Tape Ghosts, Spine With Small Chip At Top And Bottom And Blacked-Out Area At Bottom, Flaps Clean And Complete. The 1" X 3/4" Area Of The Lower Spine Containing The Doubleday Sf Logo And Name Was Blacked Out To Cover A Tape Removal Scar; The Doubleday Symbol Has Been Restored, But The Other Lettering And Design, Including The Blue Title And Yellow Author's Name On The Spine, Are Original And Are Not Unfaded. Dj Has A 1/2" Deep Narrow V-Chip At Top Rear Spine Edge, Minor Restoration To Interior Tape Reinforcement At Head And Heel Of Spine And At Bottom 2" Of Rear Flap, With Slight Show-Through Remaining On 3/4" X 2" Area Of Lower Right Rear Panel And A 3/4" X 2" Area Centered On The Rear Bottom Flap Fold.
Synopsis
Double Star is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (February, March, April 1956) and published in hardcover the same year. At the 1957 Worldcon it received the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the previous year.
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Details
- Seller
- Arroyo Seco Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 031865
- Title
- Double Star (First Edition Stated, Priced Dust Jacket)
- Author
- Heinlein, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Black Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Book
- Jacket Condition
- Good Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (stated) 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare And Unusual Books; "Literature: Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Arroyo Seco Books
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About the Seller
Arroyo Seco Books
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Pasadena, California
About Arroyo Seco Books
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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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
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