Charles Scriber's Son, 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. Orange cloth boards are warped, with upper corners of boards turning upwards. Spine is cocked. NO DJ. Cloth covering is faded, more so on spine. Corners of boards are bumped, bending inward and worn. Bumped spine at bottom and top which has wearing with threads fraying. The end paper and free end papers are foxed and very browned. All pages are very yellowed and fragile with a thumb-sized rip on page 276. Deckle edges. Text block really browned. Back strip is separated from block but all leaves are still bound together and are not falling out. Book is readable, but one would need to be very careful while turning pages. The author was an Academy Award winning screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, activist and novelist. Ghost-writer on Marilyn Monroe's autobiography. Neat book by author with deep Hollywood ties.

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Bookseller: Quirky Used Books & More (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 220602004
Title: A Guide for the Bedevilled
Author: Hecht, Ben
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Charles Scriber's Son
Date Published: 1944
Weight: 0.88 lbs

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

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...
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...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...