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The Door
by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York : Farrar & Rinehart. VG. 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition with the Farrar & Rinehart colophon on the copyright pag e bound in red cloth with black lettering. A Very Good copy in a VG- d ust jacket. Slight spine lean. Rubs to the book's spine tips and corne rs. Former owner's book plate is affixed to the front endpaper. The fr ont hinge is a little wobbly but not cracked. Contents are about fine, clean, unmarked. The dust jacket has small chips at its corners and c hipping along the head and heel of its spine. There is a 1" triangular chip at the front panel's lower edge. The rear panel has chips at its edges and rubs to its folds. Tanning to the jacket's spine and to the panels' margins. A decent example of an uncommon jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dearly Departed Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15827
- Title
- The Door
- Author
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Dearly Departed Books
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Alliance, Ohio
About Dearly Departed Books
Selling books since 1978. We specialize in SF, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Western & Pulp Fiction. With an inventory of more than 35,000 Hardcover 1st editions, Vintage Paperbacks , Pulp Magazines & general antiquarian books. Store front open by chance or appointment.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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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