A Corner of the World
by Shaplen, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Minus/Fine Minus
- Seller
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Templeton, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1949. Book. Fine Minus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated 1st Edition. Text block and boards are clean, straight and tight. Boards straight and tips pointed. Cinnamon cloth boards with gold text and graphics. Yellow topstain. Unclipped dust jacket has edgewear and two striations on the front cover. It has some tanning around the top but looks spectacular in plastic dust jacket protector. Comes packed in wrappable box. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Winding Road Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001810
- Title
- A Corner of the World
- Author
- Shaplen, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Minus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Fiction Shanghai Far East WWII
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Winding Road Books
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Templeton, California
About Winding Road Books
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.