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Glibson
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] TICHENOR, George
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm); light blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; 342pp. Subtle darkening to cloth at spine and edges, light offsetting to endpapers and a few tiny nicks to rear pastedown; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with shallow chipping, tears, and creasing to extremities and an old, faint dampstain along spine panel, most noticeable on verso; Very Good. Tichenor's satirical portait of a Depression-era banker, touted on the jacket blurb as "the most withering portrayal of financial boobery in high places that has ever appeared in print." Scarce in or out of dustjacket. HANNA 3512.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18786
- Title
- Glibson
- Author
- [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] TICHENOR, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fat Cats;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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