BIGGER AND BLACKER
by Cohen, Octavus Roy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 313 pages; G+/Fair; spine beige with black titling; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$2.00 net', significant shelfwear and rubbing, including water damage along entire spine, extending outwards, water-staining to fore edges, interior of head of spine peeling into two layers, tail of spine chipped off; boards with water-staining matching jacket staining, mild shelfwear; shelved case 6. A short story collection that features, among others, Florian Slappey, one of the first black private eyes. 1357107. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1357107
- Title
- BIGGER AND BLACKER
- Author
- Cohen, Octavus Roy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.