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Al Capone: The Biography Of A Self-Made Man
by Pasley, Fred D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Poor
- Seller
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Ives Washburn, 1935. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Later printing.. Solid later printing (1935) of the first edition in original dust jacket. Orange cloth boards with blue lettering on cover and spine. Quite clean, no fraying, binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Very nice clean decorated endpapers with beautiful old custom bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Pages and edges are clean. 355 pages. Dust jacket has large piece missing at spine, not price clipped (2.50 on front inside flap), edge wear and closed tears - now enclosed in clean archival quality removable mylar cover. Scarce book, the astounding biography of a gangster and a history of modern day carnage..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32934
- Title
- Al Capone: The Biography Of A Self-Made Man
- Author
- Pasley, Fred D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- Later printing.
- Publisher
- Ives Washburn
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, AL CAPONE, GANGSTERS, TRUE CRIME, MAFIA, CHICAGO CRIME HISTORY, FRED D. PASLEY
- Bookseller catalogs
- true crime;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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