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Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
by Hilton, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1934. First Edition. First Printing Very near fine in light yellow cloth covered boards with blue text on the spine and on the front board. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 5 inches with the top edge of the text block slightly dust stained and cloth on the front board shows faint spots of foxing. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with 1/16 inch deep chipping across the upper edge of the spine area which is tanned and with nicks to the fore corners of the front and rear panels over the tips of the boards. Signed "Sincerely | James Hilton" on the first free end page. James Hilton's classic of which Alexander Woolcott is quoted as saying of it: "A tender and gentle story as warming to the heart and as nourishing to the spirit as nay I can remember." 126 pages of text. A highly collectible copy of a signed and classic first edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32457
- Title
- Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
- Author
- Hilton, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Town's End Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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