Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1975. Jacket is protected in mylar, edge wear, rubbing, chipping around the spine and folds for the flaps, a piece of jacket missing along the bottom front cover. Boards have shelf wear, particularly along the bottom, and bumping. Pages clean, no marks, no tears. Binding is tight expect 2 spots where it lies flat, pages are still intact. A nice reading copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair.

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Bookseller: after-words bookstore (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 031562
Title: The Poor Man's Guide to Trivia Collecting
Author: Mebane, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0385019475
ISBN 13: 9780385019477
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1975
Bookseller catalogs: Antiques/Collectibles; Trivia;

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not 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...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...