Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. 1940. Hardcover in worn dust jacket. Dust jacket adhered to panels, torn and taped at edges and spine, light soil. Scraped edges and corners with light fray, prior owner's bookplate scraped from half title page verso. Clean pages, a little tanned. Front hinge cracked, all pages attached. 8vo. 295pp.

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Bookseller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: bing288mm020
Title: Empress of the Dusk
Author: Vandercook, John W
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Date Published: 1940
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Biography

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We have been selling books for over 30 years via catalog and lists, as well as open shops. We closed our last open shop in 2003 and now operate out of our warehouse, which contains 500,000 books, journals, periodicals from the 16th Century to the present. We sell on-line as well as via lists and catalogs. We buy collections, accumulations, excess unneeded donations/duplicates, from Museums and Libraries for cash or credit. We have one of the largest collections of offprints in zoology, Botany, Molecular biology available for sale in the world

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Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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,...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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....
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"...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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...