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The Summit of the Years
by Burroughs, John
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
-
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. First printing. BAL 2186. The spine ends and bottom corner of the rear board are severely abraded. There is some foxing to the title page and frontispiece tissue guard from a former newspaper clipping. Otherwise fine. The dust jacket is missing the bottom 1" of the rear panel. Chipped at the spine ends. The price, $1.15, is present on the spine. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015179
- Title
- The Summit of the Years
- Author
- Burroughs, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Banjo Booksellers
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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....
- 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...
- 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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