News is a Singular Thing
by Higgins, Marguerite
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday & Company. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Dust jacket is worn at the edges and folds with several small chips and a little loss at the corners. Jacket has dampstaining along the front cover fore edge that effects the front cover but not the text. In addition to the dampstain on the front cover, covers are edge worn with bumped corners and curled spine ends. The binding remains sound and the text is clean and unmarked with dark toning to the endpages only. ; The author reported on WWII, Korean, and Vietnam wars; she was the 1st woman to win a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent in 1951.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8220
- Title
- News is a Singular Thing
- Author
- Higgins, Marguerite
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
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About the Seller
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
Biblio member since 2014
Topeka, Kansas
About Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
We sell antiquarian and gently used books specializing in all things Kansas. We also offer a large selection of books for children, vintage young adult & series books; Agriculture; Psychology; Militaria and Western Americana.
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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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....
- 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...
- 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...