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Randolph Mason: Corrector of Destinies
by Post, Melville Davisson
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Milwaukee , Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923 319pp. No additional printings noted. Tips and spine ends are bumped and heavily rubbed. Spine is cocked and heavily shaken. Lower edge of both boards are heavily rubbed. Spine panel is sunned. Gilt titling is scuffed and dulled. Spine gutter is missing a piece at the spine heel. Boards have scuffs and scratches. Top edge of text block has heavy dust staining. Lower tip of text block is scuffed. Lower tip of several pages are bumped and have small creases. Lower tip of page 85 is missing a small piece. Page edges have light foxing. Hinges are weak. Text is unmarked. May have other flaws. . First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Recycled Records and Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32801
- Title
- Randolph Mason: Corrector of Destinies
- Author
- Post, Melville Davisson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mystery and Suspense;
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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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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