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Shadow on the Hearth
by Merril, Judith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/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. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1950. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. "First Edition" stated on copyright page, in clean original unclipped jacket. Clean unfaded black cloth boards with bright silver lettering on spine. Hint of very slight surface wear to spine corners; no bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Neatly penned previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper. 277 pps. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), very shallow chipping at top spine edge and one shallow chip at top rear panel edge (1/4" max.). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Story of a Westchester housewife's survival after an atomic bomb explodes in New York Harbor. She finds staunch and unexpected allies in her own children, in a mysterious fugitive, and an idealistic young doctor..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018983
- Title
- Shadow on the Hearth
- Author
- Merril, Judith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- NOVEL FICTION NUCLEAR WAR ATOMIC BOMB NEW YORK SUSPENSE
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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