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Moon of Madness
by Sax Rohmer
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1927. Very Good/Very Good. New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1927. Reprint. Octavo; vi, 233pp. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Jacket shows shallow chips at spine ends and a few small, closed tears and creasing along edges, with some toning to interior. Boards bumped at top corners and spine ends, with a couple thumbprint smudges to cloth. Spine cocked. Prior owner's name dated 1929 on front pastedown. Opens a bit easily between a few gatherings, but binding is sound. Light thumbprinting below text on p. 72, else pages unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11882
- Title
- Moon of Madness
- Author
- Sax Rohmer
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A.L. Burt Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- 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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