The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemmingway
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0023529903
- ISBN 13
- 9780023529900
- Seller
-
Simi Valley, California, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.7000 8.0000 5.4000. First edition with Scribner's A and seal on the copyright page. Blue cloth cover with silver gilt lettering on the spine, blind-stamped signature on the top board, not a BCE (no dot on the rear boar). Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, fading, and staining. Name of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and clean with a small tidemark on the top edges.
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Details
- Seller
- Schwabe Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- mon0003163919
- Title
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Author
- Ernest Hemmingway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0023529903
- ISBN 13
- 9780023529900
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 0.7000 8.0000 5.4000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 0.4000 lb
Terms of Sale
Schwabe Books
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About the Seller
Schwabe Books
Biblio member since 2010
Simi Valley, California
About Schwabe Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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