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The Tree Where Man Was Born
by Matthiessen, Peter and Eliot Porter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
First edition 1st printing, Eliot Porter's photographs are given a separate title, The African Experience, even though the photos are interlaced through the text. A Near Fine book with light edge and corner wear, previous owner info written front paste-down, in a Very Good jacket with light edge and corner wear, age yellowing along edges of white portions, and rubbing on both panels. Price of $17.50 present bottom corner of front flap. An oversize book approximately 11 by 10 inches. This copy is the second state of both the book, tan cloth covered boards, and the dust jacket, single price bottom of front flap. The ubiquitous BOMC edition of the book has cheap laminate boards that are slightly glossy and no price on the jacket, although first edition is stated and there is no blind stamp. A confusing situation that leads to many BOMC copies being sold as if they were first editions. The first state of book is in dark brown boards with 3 prices on the front jacket flap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Squid Ink Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio7049
- Title
- The Tree Where Man Was Born
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter and Eliot Porter
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1972
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non-Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Squid Ink Books
Payment in USD. Sales tax will be added to sales to AZ residents. Established customers will be invoiced. Books may be returned for any reason, with return condition as per shipped. If you order a book from us you will receive it, or be given a full refund. We don't ask you to pay extra for insurance to protect us. All books shipped with mylar dust jacket protectors, well-packed, in boxes.
About the Seller
Squid Ink Books
Biblio member since 2008
Tucson, Arizona
About Squid Ink Books
We sell collectible books and first editions, mostly modern or hyper-modern titles, many signed, via the internet, by catalogue mailings, and by appointment at our book casita in Tucson, Arizona.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- 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...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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