The Man Inside: Being the Record of the Strange Adventures of Allen Steele Among the Xulus
by Calverton, V. F
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner, 1936. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 1936. 313 pages. Black cloth with silver gilt titling. Cloth rubbed to edges with fraying to corners, lightly bumped to spine ends. Dust jacket in fair to poor condition, protected in Mylar: toning, a few small closed tears, chipping to spine tips and fore-edge corners, and front hinge nearly split - holding only at bottom third, with minor loss running alongside the split. Failed tape repair at back of DJ spine. Interior age toned, text unmarked.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Bin
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2002538
- Title
- The Man Inside: Being the Record of the Strange Adventures of Allen Steele Among the Xulus
- Author
- Calverton, V. F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner
- Date Published
- 1936
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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...
- 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...
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