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The Power and the Glory: A Romance of the Great La Salle
by Parker, Gilbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Stated first edition. Full black cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine, map on front endpapers, color frontispiece, several B&W illustrations throughout. . Spine mildly sunned and rubbed, some slight wear to corners, spine slightly cocked, front hinge starting, former owner's name written on third page, else fine. VERY GOOD/NONE. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (ix), (iv), 339 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9203
- Title
- The Power and the Glory: A Romance of the Great La Salle
- Author
- Parker, Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Fiction;, Literature;, Historical Fiction, Novels;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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