Presidential Mission
by SINCLAIR, Upton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1948. Hardcover. 12mo. Black cloth with orange spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Very good/good only. While text block is fine and tight, front/rear boards show mild mottling; jacket has mild edgewear and some archivally mended (on verso) edge tears with large triangular chip to rear panel -- yet still overall fairly attractive, with cheesy front panel graphics. Tight and nice first English edition of the eighth title in Sinclair's popular eleven-volume "Lanny Budd" series concerning this suave and debonair son of an American weapon manufacturer who manages to get himself involved in all manner of world events. Jacket front panel conveys the feel: "Dinner at the White House with Churchill, espionage in Tunisia, strange encounters with Hitler and Göring inside grim, bomb-battered Germany -- Lanny Budd, secret agent, continues his thrilling career." Sinclair (1878-1968) was an incredibly prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction who also dabbled in politics during his ample free time.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49600
- Title
- Presidential Mission
- Author
- SINCLAIR, Upton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T. Werner Laurie Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...