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Canfield: The True Story of the Greatest Gambler
by Gardiner, Alexander
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Minus/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Milwaukee , Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930 350pp. Spine ends are heavily bumped. Spine head has a small tear. Spine and board edges are sunned. Tips are bumped and rubbed. Front board has two pinholes. Boards have light scuffs and light scratches. Boards have light soiling and light stains. Inside front board and front endpaper have small ink stains. Spine is heavily beveled. Spine is a bit shaken. Text is unmarked. . First Edition. Hardcover. Good Minus/No Dust Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Recycled Records and Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31334
- Title
- Canfield: The True Story of the Greatest Gambler
- Author
- Gardiner, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime;
Terms of Sale
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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....
- 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
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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