New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Hardcover. Octavo, 293 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is green with white print. Dust jacket in mylar, edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners, peripheral toning, shelf wear. Price clipped. Boards in brown cloth with black print. Wear to spine caps and corners, lightly cocked spine. Text block has spotting to edges, gutter stain to endpapers, name in ink on front flyleaf. 1372532. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Bookseller: Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1372532
Title: THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE
Author: Stuart, Jesse, 1906-1984
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1949

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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....
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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...
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....
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...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...

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