Too Tough to Die, Down and Dangerous with the U. S. Marshals by Sabbag, Robert
- Bookseller: About Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 000057
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (23.00
- Edition: First Printing of the First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0671660942
- ISBN 13: 9780671660949
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1992
Description
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992 Original red cloth spine and blue boards. Not a book club edition. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No chips or tears. Fine condition in bright, shiny, Fine Dust Jacket. Index. A 200-year history, from the founding in 1789 through the Whiskey Rebellion, Reconstruction, the Wild West, Billy the Kid, Federal Witness Protection Program, Civil Rights, Watergate, the war on drugs, etc. From the Dust Jacket: "This is the story of the men and women of America's oldest - and perhaps, least known - law enforcement agency, the United States Marshalls, by far the most interesting and unusual police agency in the country today, and arguably the most effective." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/DJ Not Price Clipped (23.00. 8vo. 303pp.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding 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. Also known as the back.
book club edition : A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the overall quality of the book's materials is lower than the same book as printed by a traditional publishing house.
price clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
remainder : Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder mark.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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