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Shadow on the Hearth
by Merril, Judith
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1950. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Very clean unfaded black cloth boards with bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names,writing or marks. 277 pgs. Unfaded dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, hint of very light soiling near bottom edge of rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality myalr cover. A tense, prophetic novel of one woman's world, after an atomic bomb falls on New York. 8vo. Fiction..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015162
- Title
- Shadow on the Hearth
- Author
- Merril, Judith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- FICTION NOVEL NUCLEAR WAR SUSPENSE JUDITH MERRIL FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Suspense;
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Edges
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- 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
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- Price Clipped
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- New
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