See How They Run
by Mankiewicz, Don M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Clean red cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 307 pages. Dust jacket designed by George Salter is clean, price clipped at upper corner of front inside flap, has slight edge wear; photo of author among horses and jockeys on rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Suspense, action, and a fantastically complete background of race track life are the principal ingredient in this story of a horse race told in terms of the handful of people involved in it..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029220
- Title
- See How They Run
- Author
- Mankiewicz, Don M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- FICTION, NOVEL, HORSE RACING, RACE TRACK LIFE, DON M. MANKIEWICZ, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- horses;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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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...
- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.