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Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman.
by Bond, Nelson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Fallon, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Doubleday,, 1951.. First edition. Scarce.. Hardcover.. Publishers blue cloth, minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, tiny ink name at top of first blank, text block toned, else excellent. Illustrated dust jacket, minor shelf wear, rubbing to corners, bit of wear at corners and edges, tiny bit of loss at head of spineand edge, inside flap corners with just a little clipping, price still intact, overall still an excellent copy in protective mylar. A scarce book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dark Parks Books & Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25891
- Title
- Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman.
- Author
- Bond, Nelson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition. Scarce.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1951.
- Pages
- 224p.
- Size
- Hardcover.
Terms of Sale
Dark Parks Books & Collectibles
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Dark Parks Books & Collectibles
Biblio member since 2016
Fallon, Nevada
About Dark Parks Books & Collectibles
Early english printed books specializing in occult, science, religion and oddities. We also have a strong emphasis on modern first editions of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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