The Coconut Wireless
by Kauffman, Ray Franklin
- Used
- fair
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
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Dover, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/Fair. First edition, stated first printing. Orange cloth in clipped jacket, with price still present. 202 pp. A work of historical fiction, being a spy thriller set during the last of World War II in the Malay Peninsula. FAIR condition. Moderate dampstain affecting the lower third of the jacket and book, with the text block edges affected. Some toning to the jacket, heavier to the rear. Some soiling and minor staining. Hinges and extremities rather scuffed, with moderate chipping and some tearing along the edges. Jacket torn along the lower front hinge. Minor edgewear to the book, with the aforementioned dampstain present. Some toning in the interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mare Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017396
- Title
- The Coconut Wireless
- Author
- Kauffman, Ray Franklin
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Noisbn
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Mare Booksellers
Biblio member since 2005
Dover, New Hampshire
About Mare Booksellers
Mare Booksellers specializes in punk fanzines, with interests in underground newspapers and art. Who are we kidding? We really like anything with printed or handwritten letters, whether paper, books, etc. (Okay, letters and words aren't really that important either).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...