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A Citizen Looks at Congress
by Acheson, Dean
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Excelsior, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Very good, first edition book in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP. Blue and tan grainy paper on boards, black cloth on spine. Small round publisher's logo in gilt on front panel; lettering in light tan on spine. Age toning and light foxing on upper and side outer edges. Small amount of foxing on end papers. Text pages are lightly age-toned, else clean. Shadow transfer to verso of page after text, stating print type and format. Text block is sound.
Dust jacket is scuffed and lightly soiled overall; the lower 1 1/4" at tail of spine is stained. Inside flaps have faint fox-like stains overall. Spine and fore-edges are sunned. Fore-edge and spine folds are creased and scuffed, but not rubbed through except along the upper and lower edges and corners at head and tail of spine; upper and lower edges at head and tail of spine are chipped across the width of up to 1/8", and with loss on front and back corners of up to up to 3/8". Fore-edge corners are rubbed, more so on the upper corners with loss of 3/16" or less. Not price clipped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bliss Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20240002
- Title
- A Citizen Looks at Congress
- Author
- Acheson, Dean
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 124
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- 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...
- Edges
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- Text Block
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Sunned
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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