Oh Glory!
by Harford Powel, Jr
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
-
Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. Stated First Edition. Good copy. Fair jacket. In black cloth covers with moderately faded gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Yellow stained top edge. Square, intact binding. No cracked hinges. Clean endpapers and text pages. Very small book plate on lower front free endpaper. Bumping of ends of spine and corners. Moderate shelf wear. Jacket: Intact. Price intact on lower front flap. Chipping on ends of spine. Moderate toning and shelf wear. In new protective jacket cover. Thank you for your patronage.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002608
- Title
- Oh Glory!
- Author
- Harford Powel, Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION, HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Humor;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
My book holdings are eclectic in nature.
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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"...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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