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Hound-dog Man
by Gipson, Fred
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1949. Book of the Month Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Signature of science fiction author Chad Oliver on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Poor jacket, front flap detached but present, large chips and tears throughout. Orange cloth, lightly bumped, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly boud, foxed at the edges, clean internally. Adapted into the musical of the same title starring Fabian and Stuart Whitman.
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- Seller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8988
- Title
- Hound-dog Man
- Author
- Gipson, Fred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book of the Month Club Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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