High Noon
by Garstin, Crosbie
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus.. Publisher's red cloth with stamped front board and spine. Boards with light edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. Small tear in cloth (1/2") at front spine edge. Lower edge of spine toned. Spine head with tears in cloth and significant rubbing. Spine heel bumped with horizontal (1/2") tear in cloth. Very slight spine lean. Binding tight. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Otherwise, interior clean and unmarked. DJ not price clipped. DJ toned with edge wear and minor chipping. DJ with small amount of loss along top edge. DJ with large section missing at lower left hand corner of front cover and spine heel. Chipping at DJ spine head. Photographs available upon request. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Small World Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 065966
- Title
- High Noon
- Author
- Garstin, Crosbie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition Thus.
- Publisher
- A. L. Burt Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- FICTION PIRATES
Terms of Sale
Small World Books, LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Small World Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2011
Rochester, New York
About Small World Books, LLC
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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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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