Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1918. Hardcover. Gutter started after title page, cloth staining, cocked, tone, owner's address stamp on paste-downs, wear; Dust Jacket in two pieces with large chips to front cover, tone, worn. Serviceable reading copy. ; Novelist and investigative journalist's "story of love and politics in a big American city," Philadelphia. Frontispiece and three illustration plates by Leslie L Benson. Strong dust jacket Liberty Bell design; simpler Liberty Bell on book cover. Hard-to-find, with uncommon, worn dust jacket. ; 458 pages .

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Bookseller: Mike's Library (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12229
Title: The Crack In The Bell
Author: Macfarlane, Peter Clark
Illustrator: Leslie L Benson
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
Place of Publication: Garden City
Date Published: 1918
Keywords: Philadelphia - Fiction, Political Fiction

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Mike\'s Library is an on-line, general line used and rare bookstore situated in the historic Pocono Northeast, near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. Since 1995, Mike\'s Library has offered carefully selected used and rare books. Our roving eye focuses on uncommon and significant works in many fields, with strengths in history, business & economics, social sciences, medicine, science and technology. Please contact us with any questions: 570-822-7585 or info@mikeslibrary.com. Thanks! We offer carefully chosen books at reasonable prices. Our grading follows the AB standards; we err conservatively. Our books are bubble-wrapped and securely packed. We hope you will enjoy our constantly changing offerings! Thank you.

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...