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The Silent Traveller in San Francisco
by Yee, Chiang
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
W. W. Norton & Company, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1964 W. W. Norton & Company. First Edition, stated. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has gray cloth-covered boards with blue spine and cover lettering. Deckle fore edges. 16 color plates. 50 black and white illustrations. 366 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Small nick in cloth at top edge of back cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, and small tears; an old one-inch tear at the top of the front panel has been repaired with paper tape on the inside. Dust jacket is price clipped (both top and bottom corners of front flap). Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13536
- Title
- The Silent Traveller in San Francisco
- Author
- Yee, Chiang
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Travel,Art,Cities and Towns,California
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cities and Towns; Travel; Art; California;
Terms of Sale
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SmarterRat Books
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- 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...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- First Edition
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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...
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- Countries & Cultures Cities
- Countries & Cultures Asia East Asia
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- Countries & Cultures North America United States West
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