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The Blackboard Jungle
by Hunter, Evan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. First Edition. First printing Very good+ in 1/2 cloth and red paper covered boards with black text stamping on the spine and on the front board and with a black top stain to the text block. There is a prior owner's name and date of "Dec. 25, 1954" on the front end paper behind the dust jacket flap. In a very good- dust jacket with the price clipped from the front flap, a 1/4" deep chip from the lower edge of the spine area, 1/8" deep chipping across most of the upper edge of the spine area and with rubbing to the folds and minor chips from the upper corners of the panels at the fold to the flaps. The author's first book which although fiction is based on his personal experiences following his enlistment in the Navy during World War II. The book formed the basis of a movie of the same name filmed in 1955 staring Glen Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow and Anne Francis.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB17668
- Title
- The Blackboard Jungle
- Author
- Hunter, Evan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
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