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Presidential Agent
by SINCLAIR, Upton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG-
- Seller
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
June 1944 1944. VG+/VG-. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 14.5 x 22.8 cm brown cloth with blind stamped titles to the front and silver titles to the spine. Top edge red, 655 [7]pp with original unclipped jacket priced at $3.00. A little pushing to the spine and a small ding along the front edge. Internally there is a bookplate to the front pastedown with a little ghosting to the facing endpaper but no name or inscription. There is a little spotting to the edge of the text block only. The binding is firm and square. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) has a little toning and marking to the spine, and to a lesser extent the panels and flaps. There is rubbing with a touch of surface abrasion to the spine tips and corners with minor loss to two. There is some slight chipping at the head of the spine and a few tiny edge tears of under 0.5 cm and one of 2.2cm to the top of the front panel front panel. All in all a very good 1st edition copy of this Sinclair's 5th Lanny Budd novel set as Europe descends into World War II. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201276
- Title
- Presidential Agent
- Author
- SINCLAIR, Upton
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG-
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- June 1944 1944
- Keywords
- American|Historical Fiction|World War II
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About the Seller
Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Biblio member since 2020
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
About Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Rainford & Parris Books is a small family business based on the Hertfordshire / Essex border, close to London Stansted Airport. We are full time professional bookdealers specialising mainly in Modern First Editions, Children's Books, Illustrated Books and Nineteenth Century Literature, as well as assorted fine and interesting books. When describing our books we attempt to list all significant defects to a high degree of precision, so that you can build an accurate idea of their condition. We supplement our description with images and are always happy to provide further images or information. All books are very carefully packaged in a new book-box so that they reach you in the condition described.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- VG+/VG-
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly less than Very Good Condition. Very...
- 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...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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