The James
by Niles, Blair
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1945). First Revised Edition. Very good+ in a reddish colored cloth covered boards with a gilt and charcoal gray title block on the spine. In a good+, price clipped dust jacket with !/2" and 1/3" deep chips across the lower edge of the spine area which is slightly tanned and rubbed at the folds to the panels. The front and rear panels have several small (1/4") chips to their edges. Although originally published in 1939 as the 5th volume in the series this was the first revision of the book which made it 24 pages shorter and with all new illustrations by Edward Shenton who also illustrated the original version of the book. There are no prior ownership markings in this copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB29682
- Title
- The James
- Author
- Niles, Blair
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Revised Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1945)
Terms of Sale
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...