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Vain Shadow
by Spence, Hartzell
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, Ill: Peoples Book Club, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/good. viii, 428 p.; 21 cm. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title over red ornamentation. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Both dust jacket and endpaper illustrations are by John Alan Maxwell. Color title page illustration. Hartzell Spence is famous both as the author of One Foot In Heaven, the basis of the movie by the same name, and as the founder of Yank magazine, which originated the use of the term "pin-up." In this novel, he presents the adventures of the Spanish explorer Don Francisco Orellana, who discovered the headwaters of the Amazon in 1541. Book is in Near Fine Condition: corners slightly bumped. Dust jacket is in Good condition: edges and spine rubbed; 2-cm. tear at head of spine along front joint. Pages are clean and tight. An attractive copy of this historical romance.
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- Seller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 000026
- Title
- Vain Shadow
- Author
- Spence, Hartzell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Peoples Book Club
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Ill
- Date Published
- 1947
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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