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The World's Body
by Ransom, John Crowe
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Edges of text block have a sprinkling of foxing. Overall, a tight, clean near fine copy./Dust jacket has a little shallow chipping at top of spine and at the bottom corners. Overall near fine.
- Seller
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Toledo, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition with Scribner's "A". 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-5/8". Blue cloth covered boards stamped in silver.350 pp. Edges of text block have a sprinkling of foxing. Overall, a tight, clean near fine copy./Dust jacket has a little shallow chipping at top of spine and at the bottom corners. Overall near fine.. This is a lovely copy with a penciled in date initials which look as though they might be JCR. But I am not sure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 984
- Title
- The World's Body
- Author
- Ransom, John Crowe
- Format/Binding
- 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-5/8". Blue cloth covered boards stamped in silver.350 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Edges of text block have a sprinkling of foxing. Overall, a tight, clean near fine copy.
- Jacket Condition
- Dust jacket has a little shallow chipping at top of spine and at the bottom corners. Overall near fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition with Scribner's "A"
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
Terms of Sale
Frogtown Books, Inc.
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Frogtown Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2022
Toledo, Ohio
About Frogtown Books, Inc.
Online store with a selection of used, rare and out of print books, autographs and Hollywood memorabilia.
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
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