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Challenge: Behind the Face of Japan
by Close, Upton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. First printing. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated endpapers. 409 pp. including index, plus illustrations. Fore edge untrimmed, with some leaves unopened. The orange of the spine and part of the front board is faded. Small scribble on the spine. Otherwise fine in a tight binding.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007838
- Title
- Challenge: Behind the Face of Japan
- Author
- Close, Upton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Banjo Booksellers
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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