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Taking the Count
by Van Loan, Charles E
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Doubleday, Doran and Company ( Canada ) Ltd. , 1915. - First Canadian edition, from the American sheets, Canadian title page, binding & dj similar - bright yellow cloth printed in black, school proficiency presentation on the fly else fine, in the rare yellow pictorial dj depicting a brutal bruiser towering over his vanquished foe, minor chipping at the spine tips, the top one grazes the word " Taking " an eighth inch deep, jacket quite bright & clean - rare in dj. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10027
- Title
- Taking the Count
- Author
- Van Loan, Charles E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company ( Canada ) Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- Boxing Fiction - Pugilist Literature - Boxing Stories - Irwin S. Cobb
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB
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About the Seller
Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Port Colborne, Ontario
About Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB
General used bookstore, Mon-Sat. 10: -5pm. Used, ou-of-print, scarce, and rare books. Literature, first editions, Canadiana etc. ABAC/ILAB Member
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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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