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At the Earth's Core
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good to Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap (G&D), 1923. Book. Illus. by J. Allen St. John. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First published in book form by A.C. McClurg in 1922 (which is the date on the copyright page, and which is usually misunderstood as being the publication date for this one). One of 20,000 copies, book and dust jacket being variant 1(b). Lukes 2017, pp. 144-146. Red cloth w/black lettering to front cover/spine, 277 pages w/five pages of advertisements for other titles published by G&D (works by ERB, Curwood, Grey, Tarkington), eight full-page illustrations (including frontispiece). Light wear to corners/spine ends, bump to top edge of front cover, moderately sized stain to back cover, previous owner's small name-stamp applied twice to front end paper, once to half-title, and three times to reverse of frontispiece (poor guy was probably worried about forgetting his name), light soil to page edges, top edge foxed/stained, in dust jacket w/edgewear, chipping/short tears to corners/top spine end, largish piece torn from bottom spine (pretty much removes publisher's name), rubbing, spine edges worn, spine slightly darkened, diagonal crease to bottom of rear flap/bottom left corner of rear panel. Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019149
- Title
- At the Earth's Core
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Illustrator
- J. Allen St. John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good to Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st thus.
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap (G&D)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOISBN, ERB, alternate worlds, Stone Age, fantastic fiction
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Fredericton, New Brunswick
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- 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...
- 1st Thus
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- 12mo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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