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"Care for a Merger?": Cartoons from The Wall Street Journal
by Charles Preston, Editor
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1958 E.P. Dutton and Company, New York. 1958. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O names on the front endpapers and a gift inscription on the FFFP verso. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head, tail, and upper tips; slight shelfwear to board bottom edges. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($2.75); chipping to head and tail; light sun bleaching to spine; closed tear on rear panel at top; missing small piece on front panel at top; light wear at tips. Yellow paper over boards and spine with bright green lettering on the spine; cartoon drawn on front board. 96 pp 4to. This book is a selection of 120 cartoons printed in The Wall Street Journal that present a unique and uproarious view of business from the standpoint of the executive, the time-clock-puncher, the clock watcher, and the secretary. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012697
- Title
- "Care for a Merger?": Cartoons from The Wall Street Journal
- Author
- Charles Preston, Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- cartoons, Wall Street Journal cartoons, business cartoons, financial cartoons, stocks, brokers, businessman's life, humor, drawings,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
- 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.
- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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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