Thunderbolt House
by Pease, Howard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Twin Falls, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1944 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The book is in red cloth with blue stamping on the spine. It is clean and tight with the only defect being the rounded spine ends. It is a stated first edition. The jacket has a faded spine and chipping at the top and bottom and two tiny holes. Two of the flap folds have very small chips at the top. It is not price clipped and the original price of $2.00 is still there. There is a book plate laid in with the author's signature written by his hand..
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Details
- Bookseller
- JALA Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009828
- Title
- Thunderbolt House
- Author
- Pease, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- youth fiction
Terms of Sale
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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.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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