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PROUD NEW FLAGS [SIGNED]
by Van Wyck Mason, F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xiii pages, 493 pages; G+/Missing DJ; gray cloth spine with (faded) gilt lettering; exterior protected by a mylar covering; marked shelfwear and rubbing to the exterior of the book; marked soiling to the exterior of the book; marked fading to the spine and the top and bottom edges of the boards; minor creasing and fraying to the head and tail of the spine; marked fading and rubbing to the gilt lettering on the spine; marked bumping to the corners of the boards; marked fraying to the cloth on the bottom corners of the boards; minor bumping and tearing to the cloth at the tail of the spine; top edge of the text block is dyed dark brown; fore edge of the text block is deckled; marked soiling and scratching to the edges of the text block; marked soiling and age-toning to the front and back paste downs and free endpapers; gutter split and webbing visible between front paste down and ffep & between back paste down and bfep; pencil marginalia to verso bfep; large open tear to the bottom of the blank leaf preceding bfep; minor age-toning and soiling to the pages; signed flat by van Wyck Mason on the half-title; shelved under the Front Counter. 1357781. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1357781
- Title
- PROUD NEW FLAGS [SIGNED]
- Author
- Van Wyck Mason, F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia and New York
- Date Published
- 1951
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
DC's Oldest Rare and Used Bookstore, Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have a large internet presence including this website, Amazon, and Ebay, accredited appraisals member ASA, and an in house book binder. For more information go to www.secondstorybooks.com
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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"...
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