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THE SILENT PEOPLE SPEAK
by St. John, Robert
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. SIGNED by the Author on the half title, small quarto, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), map endpapers, 395 pages. Robert St. John (1902 - 2003) was an American author, broadcaster, and journalist.<br /> <br /> Intelligent personal impressions of the post-World War Two Yugoslavia and its capital Belgrade, as encompassed by Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Macedonia. Sequel to his bestselling The Land of the Silent People (1942).<br /> <br /> Near Fine/Very Good copy: Tight, clean copy with light uniform age-toning to paper. Chipping and some wear to dust jacket (unclipped): mainly apparent around its edges. Previous owner's signature on verso of ffe.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8393
- Title
- THE SILENT PEOPLE SPEAK
- Author
- St. John, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Yugoslavia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia, Belgrade, Croatia, Dalmatia, Serbia, Greece, Macedonia, Voivodina, Ottomans, Nazis, Soviet Union, Stalin,
Terms of Sale
Borg Antiquarian
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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