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Wings
by Saunders, John Monk
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Hardcover Reprint in Fair Condition. No Jacket. No Publishing Date, c 1920. Paramount made a film from this book. Some of the photographs are from the film. They are WW I black and white photos. Frontis: Charles Rogers (film star of the day) as John Powell and Clara Bow (also a film star of the day) as Clara Preston, in the Paramount "picture show". Title page and publishers page missing. Binding of blue cloth with black title inset with blue lettering, black titles on spine. Worn, scruffy around the edges, particularly around the spine. Inner hinge cracked. Text/pages toned, clean and unmarked. On dedication page there is a small stain and the upper corner has a crease. Page 11 has a small tear on the fore edge and in the upper left corner. Rough cut. Two pencil lines on fore edge. Endpapers have a photograph of a WW 1 battle scene. 249 pages. 5.25 x 7.6 inches. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, c 1920.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003086
- Title
- Wings
- Author
- Saunders, John Monk
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HISTORY, WORLD WAR I WWI BOOKS TO FILM
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
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