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Vain Shadow
de Spence, Hartzell
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Aceptable/good
- Librería
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Chicago, Ill: Peoples Book Club, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/good. viii, 428 p.; 21 cm. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title over red ornamentation. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Both dust jacket and endpaper illustrations are by John Alan Maxwell. Color title page illustration. Hartzell Spence is famous both as the author of One Foot In Heaven, the basis of the movie by the same name, and as the founder of Yank magazine, which originated the use of the term "pin-up." In this novel, he presents the adventures of the Spanish explorer Don Francisco Orellana, who discovered the headwaters of the Amazon in 1541. Book is in Near Fine Condition: corners slightly bumped. Dust jacket is in Good condition: edges and spine rubbed; 2-cm. tear at head of spine along front joint. Pages are clean and tight. An attractive copy of this historical romance.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000026
- Título
- Vain Shadow
- Autor
- Spence, Hartzell
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Peoples Book Club
- Lugar de publicación
- Chicago, Ill
- Fecha de publicación
- 1947
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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.
- 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....
