DEPARTURE AND OTHER STORIES
by Howard Fast
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Pomona, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Damp staining on spine and rear gutter. Foxing on text block. 1 inch open tear at bottom of rear panel. Light chipping at spine crown/heel. First Edition stated. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rare Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121517
- Title
- DEPARTURE AND OTHER STORIES
- Author
- Howard Fast
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1949
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.