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Skin and Bones
by Thorne Smith
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Sun Dial Press Inc, 1939 Book. Fair. Black Cloth Boards. Presumed First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Novel. 306pp illustrated with black and white drawings to the chapter heads. Red drawing to front board, lettering to spine and tinted top edges. Fore edges untrimmed. Spine faded, left hinge starting and pencil inscription to endpaper, otherwise fair reading copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008694
- Title
- Skin and Bones
- Author
- Thorne Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition
- Publisher
- The Sun Dial Press Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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