THE BLACK ROSE
by Costain, Thomas
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1945. Black hardcover cloth binding has wear to covers, tear to spine cloth, b umped corners. Front hinge cracked, previous owner bookplate ffep, illustrated endpapers show Road to Cathay from story, Interior clean and tight. Last page separated bottom couple of inches but attached. Good reading copy. 403 pages. Author's historical fiction with the English King Edward the First, a Mongolian general known as Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and the extraordinary friar Roger Bacon.. 8vo - Square. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013051
- Title
- THE BLACK ROSE
- Author
- Costain, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 8vo - Square
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Adult;
Terms of Sale
Deja Vu Books
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About the Seller
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- 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,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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