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The Gun
by Forester, C. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Chester Springs, Penn.: Dufour Editiions, Inc., (1969). Fourth Printing. Fine in bright red-orange cloth covered boards with bold, gilt text stamping on the spine. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 4 3/4 inches. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket with only minor rubbing to the extreme edges of the spine area. Printed and produced by The Bodley Head of London and sent to Dufour Editions for their use and publication. Dufour only placed a pasted green label on the title page about The Bodley Head name. 189 pages of text. Originally published in 1933 in the US by Little Brown and Company. Extremely scarce in first edition.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB31873
- Title
- The Gun
- Author
- Forester, C. S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Fourth Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dufour Editiions, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Chester Springs, Penn.
- Date Published
- (1969)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
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