Fail-Safe
by Burdick, Eugene and Harvey Wheeler
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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About This Item
NY: McGraw-Hill; (1962). First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Presumed first printing of this Cold War classic (no statement of printing on copyright page), very good in a very good dust jacket. Owner's name, address, and phone number on front endpaper, otherwise tight and clean. The price clipped jacket spine is sunned, with a few small chips at edges. Slight loss at head of spine, and a little soiling generally. Numerals "08927" at bottom right corner of rear jacket panel, and at lower edge of black cloth spine on book.
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- Bookseller
- Tulsa Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020463
- Title
- Fail-Safe
- Author
- Burdick, Eugene and Harvey Wheeler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill; (1962)
- Place of Publication
- NY
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About the Seller
Tulsa Books
Biblio member since 2008
Tulsa, Oklahoma
About Tulsa Books
Internet only bookseller specializing in modern first editions, signed books, western americana, and general interest out of print books.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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