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The Brass and the Blue
by Keene, James
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Random House, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/Very Good+. Very clean first edition in original dust jacket. "First Printing" stated on copyright page. Blue boards with 3/4 gray cloth and spine, black lettering with small crossed swords on spine. No bumping or wear, but some splotchy fading to blue portion of boards. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 248 pgs. Clean unfaded dustjacket is not price clipped, has tiny bit of wear to spine corners, no chips or tears. Large photo of author on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The stirring saga of a young cavalry officer's search for himself amidst the hardships and adventures of the frontier..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029372
- Title
- The Brass and the Blue
- Author
- Keene, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- NOVEL, HISTORICAL FICTION, AMERICAN FRONTIER, JAMES KEENE, FORT LARAMIE, WYOMING, FIRST EDITION
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- 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...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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