The Turning Stream
by Aikman, Duncan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday & Company Inc., 1948. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Good+ ; Fair Jacket. 1948 Doubleday & Company Inc. First Edition, stated. First printing. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has gray cloth-covered boards with black and reverse spine lettering on a black panel. Top page edges colored gray. Deckle fore edges. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped. Head of spine has a small nick. Pages clean and unmarked. 440 pages. Jacket fit loosely on book, and has tattered top and bottom edges, with several pieces missing from edges, as well as several large tears. The larger tears have been repaired on the inside of the jacket with archival document repair tape. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4660
- Title
- The Turning Stream
- Author
- Aikman, Duncan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company Inc.
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Politics,International Relations
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics; International Relations;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
SmarterRat Books
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.