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The Coast of Chance
by Chamberlain, Esther and Lucia
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Bishop, California, United States
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About This Item
Bobbs-Merrill. Good with no dust jacket. 1908. Hardcover. Good hardcover. No dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear and fraying to edges and corners of covers and spine. Pages are yellowed and foxed with age. Pages 154 & 155 have some pencil markings, but does not affect the text. Binding is cracked at the front hindge, exposing the binding stitching and the binding is starting to crack at the back hinge. , but no pages appear to be missing or loose. One front end page and one back end page appears to be missing. ; 7.60 x 5 x 1.75 inches; 465 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Range & River Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43640
- Title
- The Coast of Chance
- Author
- Chamberlain, Esther and Lucia
- Illustrator
- Clarence F. Underwood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- Fiction, LITERATURE, July
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature;
Terms of Sale
Range & River Books
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About the Seller
Range & River Books
Biblio member since 2006
Bishop, California
About Range & River Books
With thousands of books on the shelves, and specializations in the fiction and nonfiction that make our region great, Range & River Books is another treasure of the Eastern High Sierra and a great place to browse. We are working to list more books on-line every day for customers around the world. We specialize in Eastern California, Owens Valley and Great Basin History and Natural History, Mountaineering and Climbing, Western Americana, Literature, Rare and Collectible, Children's, and Cookbooks. Stock in store includes thousands of popular fiction titles, science fiction, mysteries, and an amazing selection of vintage volumes including the colorful People's Book Club editions from the 1930's to 1940's, so contact us if you have an interest in those areas!
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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
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