THE BIG IT
by Guthrie, A. B. Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Columbus, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton and Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. THE BIG IT, AND OTHER STORIES A. B. Guthrie, Jr.; Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, MA. (1960.) Stated First Printing. This book is hard-bound in brown paper covered boards with black & white stamping on the upper cover, with a black cloth spine with white stamping, in a dust jacket with soiling on the lower panel, and wear to the edges, corners, and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature! .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hoffman Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78056
- Title
- THE BIG IT
- Author
- Guthrie, A. B. Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton and Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
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Glossary
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- Points of Issue
- Points are physical attributes that are specific to a printing or edition of a book, such as a typo on a specific page that was...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...