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F.O.B. Detroit
by Smitter, Wessel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Harper & Bro. Pub; 1938; First Edition
- Seller
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Bangor, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY. Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Harper & Bro. Pub; 1938; First Edition. Dust jacket good, chipping to edges, several small tears. Jacket art by Cobblsdick. Grey cloth with black titles to spine and front board. Good, front hinge cracked. Bookplate of Hazel Pingree Mills who was the daughter of former Detroit mayor Hazen S. Pingree. First edition, 340 pages. Decorative end papers. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .
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- Bookseller
- Bluestocking Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8451
- Title
- F.O.B. Detroit
- Author
- Smitter, Wessel
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Harper & Bro. Pub; 1938; First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- NY
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Bangor, Pennsylvania
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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