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Breakthrough: The Saga of Jonas Salk (INSCRIBED)
by Richard Carter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Trident Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD CARTER. Review Copy with publisher's solicitation letter laid-in. First Edition. c.1966. Hardcover. Brown cloth spine. 8vo. 435pp. Very Good in Good dustjacket, Light general shelfwear, mild soiling to text block edges, small stain to pp.431-435. Light sunning to dustjacket spine, heavy edgewear with chipping and short tears, chipping to spine-ends, light soiling / age toning.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C000033880
- Title
- Breakthrough: The Saga of Jonas Salk (INSCRIBED)
- Author
- Richard Carter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Trident Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- pittsburgh
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- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- 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...
- 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...
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