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Book Book: A Compendium Of Lists, Quizzes, & Trivia About Books, The
by Gilbar Steven
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0312088035
- ISBN 13
- 9780312088033
- Seller
-
Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0312088035 . First Edition. Black hard boards with black cloth spine, very clean, tight copy. DJ is price clipped, with some edgewear and browning along the edges, still glossy with slight overall rubbing. Some foxing on top & side edge. A perfect book for people who like to read. Contents include: Literary Firsts, Superlatives (Oldest, Longest, Shortest, Oddest) A Literary Lexicon. A fascinating compendium of literary lore. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 229 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1575
- Title
- Book Book: A Compendium Of Lists, Quizzes, & Trivia About Books, The
- Author
- Gilbar Steven
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312088035
- ISBN 13
- 9780312088033
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- 0312088035, Books, Literary Awards,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference;
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
About Bytown Bookery
Bytown Bookery is an online bookseller only. I started out as a book collector, but working with books is my passion, so I turned into a bookseller. The selection of books that Bytown covers is varied, something for everyone. Fiction, Business, Children's, Health, Biographies, Humour..Check it out.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
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