A Distant Drum
by Flood, Charles Bracelen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Stated First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Printing, February 1957 in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue marbled paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers (very small previous owner name and date neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper). 500 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (4.50 on front inside flap), has slight edge wear, a 1/2" closed tear at base of front panel with small crease. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025032
- Title
- A Distant Drum
- Author
- Flood, Charles Bracelen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First printing.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- FICTION, NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, PRINTING, CHARLES BRACELEN FLOOD
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.