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Detroit Is My Own Hometown
by Bingay, Malcolm W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Local resident & journalist/newspaper editor offers a glimpse at his beloved & oftentimes troubled city through personal profiles & anecdotes of local men, both famous & lesser known, " who...have given our town its tang." In 360 pages with black & white duotone photos throughout. This is the very FIRST EDITION of this Hometown Limited Edition (quantity not stated), SIGNED by the AUTHOR (his name only) to half-title/limmitation page. Hardcover 8vo has green cloth-covered boards lettered in gilt to front & spine. Condition is VG+: very clean, binding straight & strong, pages creamy white, lightly tanned, completely unmarked save for former owner's name in pen to ffep (& author's signature). Mild rubbing to extremities & some spots on front board, slight bumping to all corners & both ends of spine. No DJ. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022820
- Title
- Detroit Is My Own Hometown
- Author
- Bingay, Malcolm W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis/New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Detroit Michigan cities towns urban local history American automobile industry athletes celebrities sports
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; Writing/Publishing/Journalism/Writers/Words; Americana-Regional History;
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Gargoyle Books
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
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- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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