Second Generation [Signed bookplate laid in]
by Howard Fast
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395264839
- ISBN 13
- 9780395264836
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First edition with complete number line. Bookplate signed by author loosely laid in. Octavo; 441 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $10.95 price present; book bound in black cloth on spine with gilt lettering and red paper over boards. Dust jacket is bright with light rubbing and edgewear, 2" long closed tear on recto. No chips. Slight lean to boards but binding is sound. Edges lightly foxed. Pages clean and unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12404
- Title
- Second Generation [Signed bookplate laid in]
- Author
- Howard Fast
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395264839
- ISBN 13
- 9780395264836
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1978
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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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...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- 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....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...