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SEEDTIME OF THE REPUBLIC
by Rossiter, Clinton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Thick octavo, xiv pages, 558 pages; VG-/VG-; red and blue spine with off-white and black lettering and illustration of an eagle; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; marked shelfwear and rubbing to the jacket; minor creasing and chipping to the bottom and top of the jacket at both front and back; marked soiling to the back of the jacket; 3 or 4 small closed tears at the top of the jacket at the back; marked creasing and chipping to the head and tail of the spine; two 0.5 inch long closed tears on the spine between the title and the head of the spine; creasing along either side of the spine; marked chipping and tearing to the corners of the jacket flaps; slight creases running the length of the fore edge of the jacket on either side of the text block; price unclipped '$7.50'; minor bumping to the corners of the boards and the tail of the spine; minor soiling to the edges of the text block; former owner's name and address inked on front paste down; shelved in Case 1. 'Seedtime of the Republic' won both the Bancroft Prize and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. 1357003. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1357003
- Title
- SEEDTIME OF THE REPUBLIC
- Author
- Rossiter, Clinton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
DC's Oldest Rare and Used Bookstore, Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have a large internet presence including this website, Amazon, and Ebay, accredited appraisals member ASA, and an in house book binder. For more information go to www.secondstorybooks.com
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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