Ed McGivern's Book on Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting and Police Training
by Ed McGivern
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G+ (Good Plus)/Fair
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston, MA: Williams Book Store, 1946. Early Edition . Hardcover. G+ (Good Plus)/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Royal blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, minor soil and edgewear, lightly sunned spine, and bumped spine ends and corners. Minor soil to text block. Jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has heavy edgewear, rubbing, soil and creasing; numerous chips and tears; spine is lightly waterspotted and sunned to illegibility; flaps not clipped; $5.00 publisher's price to front flap. Binding somewhat shaken, text clean. Interior toned. Over 525 b/w illustrations. No previous owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library.
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- Bookseller
- Albion Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001030
- Title
- Ed McGivern's Book on Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting and Police Training
- Author
- Ed McGivern
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+ (Good Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Publisher
- Williams Book Store
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 484
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Albion Books
Biblio member since 2021
Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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"...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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