The Golden Ham: A Candid Biography of Jackie Gleason
by Jim Bishop
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good -
- Seller
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Diamond Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. VG-/VG-. Very good minus hardcover in VG- dust jacket. Stated first printing. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is holding well but a little bit weak in a few places. Spine is a bit cocked. Dust Jacket has very good color, Gleason portrait looks nice on the front, has edge chips, has rubbing on the back, and is in a protective Mylar sleeve. Carefully wrapped and packaged in a padded box for safe shipping. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good -.
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Details
- Bookseller
- A Quiet Corner For Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002925
- Title
- The Golden Ham: A Candid Biography of Jackie Gleason
- Author
- Jim Bishop
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
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About the Seller
A Quiet Corner For Books
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Diamond Springs, California
About A Quiet Corner For Books
A Quiet Corner For Books is a small, independent book business engaged in on-line book sales and exhibiting at book fairs. Our motto is "Quality used books for the discriminating reader". Our books are clean, reasonably priced, and dust jackets are Mylar protected. All books are well packaged for safe shipping.
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...
- 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....
- VG-/VG-
- A book in slightly less than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly less than Very Good Condition. Very Good...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...