Fountain of the Elephants
by Young, Desmond
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Early reprint. Heavy rubbing (through cloth) to top and bottom edges of the cover, otherwise only light wear. Former owner's signature on title page and on a page near the center of the text, otherwise unmarked in a tight binding. Jacket rubbed at edges with some creasing and a few small chips. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6516
- Title
- Fountain of the Elephants
- Author
- Young, Desmond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
Biblio member since 2014
Topeka, Kansas
About Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
We sell antiquarian and gently used books specializing in all things Kansas. We also offer a large selection of books for children, vintage young adult & series books; Agriculture; Psychology; Militaria and Western Americana.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.