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Cosmic Engineers
by Simak, Clifford D
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Gnome Press, 1950; stated First Edition, no additional printings indicated; 224pp.; first state binding (blue with printed yellow titling). VG hardcover in G/G+ dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges/corners of blue cloth boards, yellow titling remains bold; text also very good. Rubbing, a few small chips and closed tears at edges of unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket; two faint liquid stains apparent on jacket verso, not apparent on book or jacket recto. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Synopsis
Cosmic Engineers is a science fiction novel by author Clifford D. Simak. It was published in 1950 by Gnome Press in an edition of 6,000 copies, of which 1,000 were bound in paperback for an armed forces edition. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1939.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book House in Dinkytown
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 283523
- Title
- Cosmic Engineers
- Author
- Simak, Clifford D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Gnome Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 1.25 lbs
- Keywords
- SFF
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Book House in Dinkytown
Biblio member since 2015
Minneapolis, Minnesota
About The Book House in Dinkytown
Used books bought and sold, classics and collectibles in all fields. In Dinkytown since 1976.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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