THE VITAL CENTER: THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM
by Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, x pages, 274 pages; VG/VG-; gray spine with off-white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; marked shelfwear and rubbing to the jacket, including chipping and tearing to the top and bottom of the front of DJ; minor closed tears on the back of the jacket; minor soiling to the back of the jacket and the spine; marked chipping and tearing to the head and tail of the spine; small open tear at the center of the spine by the title; marked fading to the spine; marked chipping and tearing to the corners of the jacket flaps; price is clipped; minor age-toning to the flaps of the jacket; minor bumping to the tail of the spine; top edge of the text block is dyed brick red; fore edge of the text block is deckled; minor soiling to the text block edges; minor age-toning to the front and back paste downs and end papers; shelved under front counter. 1356987. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1356987
- Title
- THE VITAL CENTER: THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM
- Author
- Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1949
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...