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London Town
by Dark, Sidney
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. Book. Good+. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, publisher's cloth lettered in black. 303 pages. Index. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 32 full page photographs and artist renderings of buildings and locales. No publisher's date, circa 1934' first American edition bound from British sheets. No previous ownership marks. Cloth moderately sunned at spine and front cover, mild toning to end-papers. A tight, square, internally clean copy with no underlining or marking. Good+. .
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017475
- Title
- London Town
- Author
- Dark, Sidney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Travel Guide, London
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
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