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by Paul Blanshard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+ in G+ (or better) dust jacket
- Seller
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Milton, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 1955. Assumed First Edition. Hardcover. VG+ in G+ (or better) dust jacket. Gray cloth hardcover with light wear to extremities, clean, tightly bound, clean and unmarked with still bright paper. Dust jacket shows wear: edge wear, short tear, discolored rear panel, spine a bit sunned. Chapters include: The Great Literary Machine / The Pattern of Control / Communism and Capitalism / Textbooks and Schools / Patriotism and Treason / Sex and Obscenity / Blasphemy, Faith and Race / Crime, Violence and the Comics / Advertising, Libel and Secrecy / The Future of Censorship. 339 pages, including bibliography, notes and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- North Country Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11488
- Title
- .
- Author
- Paul Blanshard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+ in G+ (or better) dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Assumed First Edition
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1955
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- Books on Books;
Terms of Sale
North Country Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
North Country Books
Biblio member since 2008
Milton, Vermont
About North Country Books
General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- 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...