The Prodigal Parents: A Novel
by Lewis, Sinclair
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Good+ ; Fair Jacket. 1938 Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. First Edition, stated. First state, with short title page indicative of the first 10,000 copies. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and blind-stamped author's initials on the cover. Deckle fore edges. 301 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear, with mild fading at the edges. Pages clean and unmarked. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Jacket has tattered top and bottom edges, with several pieces missing from edges, as well as several tears. A one-inch square piece of front panel of the jacket has been reattached from the interior with archival repair tape. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped, showing original price of $2.50. Jacket has clear plastic jacket cover. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11308
- Title
- The Prodigal Parents: A Novel
- Author
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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 State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...