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A VIEW FROM THE RIM: WILLIS REED ON BASKETBALL
by Willis Reed
- Used
- good
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardback. Good/Good. First Edition. Light foxing to first few pages; previous owner's name written in pen to front pastedown; foxing to gutter and soiling to page 31. Text block is heavily foxed; endpages are foxed with soiling to rear endpapers. Boards have sunning, rubbing and soiling to edges, corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is scuffed with moderate to heavy chipping, creasing and closed tears to edges, corners and ends of spine; edge of spine and rear cover torn from top to bottom; peeling to rear cover from a previous circular sticker. Previous owner's tape repairs to inside of dust jacket. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64619
- Title
- A VIEW FROM THE RIM: WILLIS REED ON BASKETBALL
- Author
- Willis Reed
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Sports & Fitness
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:
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
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