Lonely Crusade
by Himes, Chester
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. 400 pp, stated First Edition, a novel. A note on the type... Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, cover cloth VG+ with evenly fading but legible gilt letters to spine, pages VG+. ffep verso with browned (5" x 6") rectangle as if prev owner plate had come loosened by aging glue. DJ with 3/4" right triangle chip along the top fr edge, & ard the spine top edge, additional chip wear to bottom spine edge. DJ color is VG, author portrait inside rear flap. 5.9" x 8.6" brick red cloth covered boards, in illustrated DJ.
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007377
- Title
- Lonely Crusade
- Author
- Himes, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Negro protagonist in pre-dominantly white society - fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...