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Alternative to Serfdom
by CLARK, John Maurice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good+
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good-/Good+. 8vo. Pp. xii, [2], 3-193, vi, [1]. Bound in dark blue cloth with blindstamp device on front board, gilt lettering on spine. Slight damstain at tail of spine. In the printed dust jacket that shows age-toning and edge-wear, including a snag, now flattened by a Brodart protector, at the tail of the spine. Price of $3.00 intact on front flap. Adapted from a series of lectures a the University of Michigan's William W. Cook Foundation. The author was professor and department chair at Columbia's Department of Economics. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6376
- Title
- Alternative to Serfdom
- Author
- CLARK, John Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
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