Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. No Edition Remarks. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Brown cloth with darkened gilt lettering to spine. Signed by the author, with dedication to the Coopers. Pages are rough cut. Pages are bright and mostly clear with light tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front paste-down, with a few small nicks, rub marks and creases along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with mild corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning and light mottling to spine. Book has a subtle forward lean.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1691065243IEV
Title: Not Peace But A Sword
Author: Vincent Sheean
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc.
Date Published: 1939

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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....
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...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...