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TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS
by H.P. Lovecraft & Others
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/Good
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1969. First. Hardcover. Good +/Good. One of four thousand copies printed by Arkham House. Dust Jacket designed by Lee Brown Coye. Endpaper holds previous owner's inscription, otherwise pages are clean and free of markings. Binding is square and tight. Black cloth boards are clean with very faint surface wear and fading. Gilt titles on spine are faded but intact overall. Spine also has some surface wear and fading in the cloth. Textblock is foxed on top edge, fore edge and lower edge are clean. Spine tail cloth is starting to fray, lower corners have two 1/4" open tears in cloth. DJ is creased, rubbed, with open tears to extremities. DJ is in mylar cover. Pictures provided upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60499
- Title
- TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS
- Author
- H.P. Lovecraft & Others
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Arkham House
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, WI
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Horror
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
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