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The Naked Sun
by Asimov, Isaac
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. The second book in the author's Robot series. A nice copy in yellow boards with red type to spine. Lower corners dinged and some wear to spine ends. Some black residue from vintage jacket protector that was used to tops and bottoms of boards and endpapers. Previous owner's address labels to pastedowns and ffep, and a strip of tanning to middles of free endpapers from aforementioned jacket protector. Small spot of rubbing to bottom of spine. Interior otherwise clean, though lightly tanned with solid binding. Jacket is whole with no tears or chips, but likewise as some black residue to top and bottom edges of panels, spine and flaps in spots. Tanned strip around middle of jacket from protector as well. Small pen mark with some scuffing and tanning to rear panel and some wrinkling to top of front panel that occured as jacket protector shrank/tightened. Presents quite nicely.
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Details
- Seller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- LPB006886IA
- Title
- The Naked Sun
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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Albany, California
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually 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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