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Descent of Man (Author's First Book)
by Boyle, T. Coraghessan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- About Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316104698
- ISBN 13
- 9780316104692
- Seller
-
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. About Fine/Very Good. Gerry Hoover (Jacket Illustration). Black boards with title in gilt to spine, 8vo (8-1/4 inches tall), pp. 219, stated "First Edition". Jacket illustration and early author photograph on back panel by Alan Arkaway are both bright and glossy with minor rubbing. Volume with tap to one corner at head of spine and a touch of shelf wear to bottom edge. Price clipped DJ with edge wear, two tiny marks to front flap, one 1.5cm closed tear with creasing at top of rear panel and one 1cm closed tear at bottom edge of rear flap. One of only 2,500 copies from the first printing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harropian Books, IOBA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 376
- Title
- Descent of Man (Author's First Book)
- Author
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan
- Illustrator
- Gerry Hoover (Jacket Illustration)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - About Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0316104698
- ISBN 13
- 9780316104692
- Publisher
- Atlantic-Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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- Traditional courtesy to the trade.
About the Seller
Harropian Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Nelson, British Columbia
About Harropian Books, IOBA
Harropian Books is an online bookseller offering a diverse selection of antiquarian, collectible, rare and out of print items. Our focus is on the interesting & unusual, covering all fields. ***** We are a member of the IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) and have attended the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (2011), Rare Book School in Virginia (2014 - Developing Collections ; 2016 - The History of Printed Book Illustration in the West), London Rare Book School (2021 - The History of Maps and Mapping) and Gwain Weaver Art Conservation (2019 - Care and Identification of Photographs).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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