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The Man Who Knew Coolidge
by Sinclair Lewis
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. Very Good/Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. First Edition. Printed blue dust jacket with original $2.00 price intact; book in dark blue cloth with orange title square and lettering. Jacket shows shallow chips and tears along edges with bottom 1.5" of spine panel missing, with some darkening to spine and red staining to back. Boards lightly edgeworn with a small scuff to orange title square on front. Spine slightly cocked, with nudging at head and tail. Opens easily to title page and between a few gatherings, but binding is holding soundly. Pages unmarked
[Pastore 14].
[Pastore 14].
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On Jun 9 2015, a reader said:
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9439
- Title
- The Man Who Knew Coolidge
- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
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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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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