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Don Winslow and the Scorpion's Stronghold
by Martinek, Frank V
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/Poor
- Seller
-
Canton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Racine (WI): Whitman Publishing Company, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair/Poor. Blue Board Covers with Red-Orange Lettering to Spine and Front Cover; Top right corner of spine is chipped; Pictorial Endpapers; Book Edges have darkened; Book interior is clean and tight but pages have turned and some are starting to get brittle; Front hinge is tight but paper cracked and sam for rear hinge; 12vo; 248 pages; dustjacket is protected and held together by protective mylar wrapper; dustjacket is fairly bright but is heavily rubbed with chips and tears in vertical lines where jacket was once improperly wrapped around book; spine panel of dustjacket is rubbed and split along right edge from former improper alignment; rear panel of dustjacket has cipping along top edge, bottom right spine corner and along former vertical improper alignment along spine;
0.71#; P3; A: MS0.00; ACQ5/94; OD021924; C-115; 10/30/192
0.71#; P3; A: MS0.00; ACQ5/94; OD021924; C-115; 10/30/192
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charing Cross Road Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20230596
- Title
- Don Winslow and the Scorpion's Stronghold
- Author
- Martinek, Frank V
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Whitman Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Racine (WI)
- Date Published
- 1946
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Charing Cross Road Booksellers
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Canton, Georgia
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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