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OUT OF THE WEST LAND
by Lovat Dickson
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto: Collins, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 5 1/2 x 8 in. Dark blue cloth with red spine lettering. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and ends of spine bumped, almost no shelf wear. Covers faintly dam-spotted. Binding tight and text bright with foxing to endpapers and PO's bookplate on front pastedown. DJ is GOOD ; bot price-clipped, edges worn and chipped, small tears at corners and ends of spine, long closed tear at front, ovrall rubbed with spine quite sunned. This is a true first, the Canadian edition, the author being Canadian. Fiction. Stax.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12973
- Title
- OUT OF THE WEST LAND
- Author
- Lovat Dickson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Toronto: Collins
- Date Published
- 1944
Terms of Sale
Andre Strong Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
Biblio member since 2008
Blue Hill, Maine
About Andre Strong Bookseller
Andre Strong Bookseller is located in Blue Hill, on the coast of Maine. We offer 22,000 books for sale online, and work from an office and rare book room, with a warehouse adjacent. We carry a wide selection of fine books on every subject, with specialization in art, architecture, photography, nautical, Maine and fiction. We do not have an open shop - if you'd like to visit, please arrange an appointment.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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