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Great Son
by Edna Ferber
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover first edition with dust jacket, published by Doubleday, 1945. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, original price of $2.50 printed on the top corner of the front flap. The story of four generations of the Melendy family from Seattle to Alaska, from 1851 to 1941. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover, though it has been taped to the boards with narrow strips of masking tape. Edge wear and crease marks to the top 1/4 inch of the front panel of the jacket, and some short closed tears on the back panel of about 1/4 inch each. Green cloth covered boards, with the masking tape from the jacket cover still attached. Very little wear to the boards, no edge wear and the corners are not bumped. Topstain is a bit faded. Rough fore edge text block, sewn binding, edges of the text are relatively clean, binding is tight and square. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Original vintage bookstore sticker on the bottom of the front flap. Age appropriate age tanning to the text pages. Not a library discard. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-150
- Title
- Great Son
- Author
- Edna Ferber
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WWII,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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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