THE RIDDLE OF CHUNG LING SOO: THE MARVELLOUS CHINESE CONJUROR
by Dexter, Will
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: Arco Publishers, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 223 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine pictorial red and green with white and yellow lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price clipped front flaps. Dust jacket has several instances of chipping to the edges, slight sunning to the spine and mild age toning to the flaps. Boards show very slight wear exteriorly with light sunning to the spine. Text block has slight age toning to the edges and light foxing to the end papers. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1375173. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1375173
- Title
- THE RIDDLE OF CHUNG LING SOO: THE MARVELLOUS CHINESE CONJUROR
- Author
- Dexter, Will
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Arco Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....