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Cities of Salt
by Abdelrahman Munif; Peter Theroux [Translator]
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0394570081
- ISBN 13
- 9780394570082
- Seller
-
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Random House, 1987. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Fair. 8x5x2. Stated "First American Edition" Full number line: 10-1 on copyright page. $18.95 printed price DJ Flap. FAIR CONDITION DUST JACKET: Chipped Dust Jacket (DJ) ,75" deep along DJ spine head, .5" deep along DJ front tail. DJ rubbing along edges. Creased and sunned DJ. Pink/white lettering on DJ Spine. Red DJ with gold lettering. HARD BOUND BOOK in GOOD CONDITION. Coffee cream brown paper board with impress bird of prey in the front top corner. 0.125" black soiled smudge on front, top edge of board. Brown cloth spine with gold lettering and palm tree grown from the base of the spine. Pink Remainder Mark on bottom edge of book. Previous owner's plate (return address label) on first blank flyleaf. Minor indentation on backside of dedication page. No marks or highlights inside of book. Approx. dimensions: 8.5"x6"x1.75" 625 pages. Weight: 1.75 pounds.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain's Book Shoppe LLC IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12032
- Title
- Cities of Salt
- Author
- Abdelrahman Munif; Peter Theroux [Translator]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394570081
- ISBN 13
- 9780394570082
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8x5x2
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Historical Fiction;
- X weight
- 16 oz
Terms of Sale
Captain's Book Shoppe LLC IOBA
Full refund (including shipping) for lost or damaged shipments for items reported within 40 days of expected arrival date.
No questions asked, full original purchase price-guarantee if item is returned (shipped back) with a post mark of 14 days from mailbox arrival. [Items must not contain highlights or pencil marks.]
The brass cannon and hands depicted in photos are not for sale.
About the Seller
Captain's Book Shoppe LLC IOBA
Biblio member since 2020
Iowa City, Iowa
About Captain's Book Shoppe LLC IOBA
Quality books at reasonable prices since 2017. Captain's Book Shoppe uses a stringent grading process. All noted book defects are listed. Great care is taken to package your order to ensure it arrives undamaged.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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