The Preacher and the Slave
by Stegner, Wallace [Joe Hill]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 403pp. Octavo [22 cm] Orange cloth covered boards with a blue ink stamped title on the spine and black ink linear patterns on the spine and front cover. Publisher's black topstain. Covers a bit cocked. In the dust jacket, designed by William Barss, with light chipping to the edges and mild toning to the spine and rear panel. The jacket is price-clipped. A scarce Stegner novel based on the life of Joe Hill, later republished as Joe Hill. Colberg #A11.1.a.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66070
- Title
- The Preacher and the Slave
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace [Joe Hill]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Joe Hill; Wallace Stegner; first edition; hardcover
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...