City Horse by Demuth, Jack and Patricia
- Bookseller: ReadInk
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 8080
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place: New York
- Date published: (c.1979)
Description
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. (c.1979). First Edition. Hardcover. [some spotting/foxing on top edge, bookplate on front pastedown, decorative stamp on ffep; jacket rubbed/scuffed at extremities, minor chipping at top of spine, small abrasion at upper right edge of front panel, small closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel; NOT an ex-library book]. (B&W photographs) Photographic chronicle of a horse named Hannon, one of twenty Tennessee Walkers acquired by the New York Police Department, and his adaptation to police work and to life in the big city. . Very Good+ in Very Good dj.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for 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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
Ex-library : A former library book, generally containing library acquisition and ownership stamped markings, and other typical indications of the library's use.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
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