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The White Tower
by ULLMAN, James Ramsey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1945. Hard Cover. A later printing of the author's best-selling adventure novel, set in the Alps and centered around a group trying to conquer a previously unclimbed peak. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations in gilt and blue; endpapers with color painting of an alpine scene. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With significant dampstains to covers and textblock top edge, less noticeable dampstains to some leaves, prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, with her signature to half title page, otherwise a sound volume.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 479 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80983
- Title
- The White Tower
- Author
- ULLMAN, James Ramsey
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Outdoor Pursuits & Recreation;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
Biblio member since 2005
Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
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