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My People : The Story of Jews
by Eban, Abba
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Behrman House/Random House, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 534 p. : ill ; 26 cm. Quarto. Hardcover. Publisher's original cloth over boards, half oatmeal with black and gilt lettering to spine, and half black linen for the rest of the book . Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: light wear to the extremities, with two small closed tears to tail of spine and top edge of lower panel, some light toning to edges. Binding solid, text block unmarked, pristine even, price intact. Full number line present.
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- Bookseller
- DuBois Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005559
- Title
- My People : The Story of Jews
- Author
- Eban, Abba
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Behrman House/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
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About the Seller
DuBois Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
New York, New York
About DuBois Rare Books
Dealing in fine, rare and odd books since 2009; collecting since forever.
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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