The Scarlet Sail
by Cavanna, Betty
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. B0007DY8KS . Clean, tight copy of the first edition, second printing. The pages are quite fresh, and the binding is sound, with slight fading to the edges. There is a gift inscription at the front, but no signs of use in the text. There is a tiny ink mark on the front edge of the textblock, origin unknown. The jacket is intact, with mild chipping to the spine. A mylar Brodart cover now protects it. Quite a nice copy for the sentimental collector. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; 256 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Autumn Leaves Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39401
- Title
- The Scarlet Sail
- Author
- Cavanna, Betty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- B0007DY8KS
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About the Seller
Autumn Leaves Books
Biblio member since 2019
Allentown, Pennsylvania
About Autumn Leaves Books
Internet only, in business since 2000, specializing in the obscure, the scholarly, the unusual. Most jackets are mylar-protected.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
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