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Rock Bottom
by CONRAD, Earl
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in blue on spine; dustjacket; 320pp. Minor wear and soiling to board and text block edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy in somewhat worn jacket, rubbed with small chips at extremities, just VG. Novel of the Great Migration from Mississippi to Harlem, by a white pro-Communist author. The book was criticized by African-Americans and Communists alike for its patronizing attitude toward poor urban Blacks.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16961
- Title
- Rock Bottom
- Author
- CONRAD, Earl
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Fiction; African-Americana;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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