The Gibson Upright
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
-
Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth with paper title labels to spine and front. First edition. Inscribed by Tarkington to the ffep, with 1919 date. Spine ends/corners rubbed/softened, slightly cocked, edges rubbed, light soil, gutter darkened at fep. Binding is sound. The DJ in mylar has large loss to rear panel top corner, is toned, rubbed, chipped at spine ends, rubbed through at gutter. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21009
- Title
- The Gibson Upright
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1919
Terms of Sale
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- 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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...