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A Pictorial Life of Jack London
by Kingman, Russ; Irving Stone (Foreword)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0517531631
- ISBN 13
- 9780517531631
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1979. Hardcover. 288pp. Quarto [28 cm] 1/4 black cloth with brown paper covered boards, and a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The extremities are very gently bumped, rubbed and faded. The spine is a little rolled. There are several ripples in the rear pastedown. The longest ripple is 6 inches long. In a very good dust jacket, with mild overall rubbing. The inside flaps are yellowed. The edges of the jacket are ever so slightly creased. Price-clipped. With over 250 illustrations. Inscribed by Russ Kingman on the front free endsheet.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32205
- Title
- A Pictorial Life of Jack London
- Author
- Kingman, Russ; Irving Stone (Foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0517531631
- ISBN 13
- 9780517531631
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Jack London; Irving Stone; Russ Kingman
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
- Rubbing
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- Inscribed
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rolled
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