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The Spangled Road
by Deal, Borden
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- very good: spine slightly cocked, foxing on FFEP, toning on endpapers. text clean, binding tight. Inscribed by the author on FFE/very good: corner and edge wear, age toning, minor chipping, hole in spine. NOT price clipped ($4.50)
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. first edition. hardcover. very good: spine slightly cocked, foxing on FFEP, toning on endpapers. text clean, binding tight. Inscribed by the author on FFEP: "For Edwin Randall--the Friendly ambassador-- Borden Deal Tuscaloosa Alabama May 18, 1962/very good: corner and edge wear, age toning, minor chipping, hole in spine. NOT price clipped ($4.50). Octavo, 309pp. from inside flap: "This is a circus novel, told by one of the most gifted story-tellers writing today. At the center is Joe Domino, a famous clown who has now retired. Driving South with his wife, he runs into a small circus stranded and bankrupt in a Georgia town. The lure and challenge seize hold of Domino: he becomes owner of Cosmos Brothers Great International Combined Circus. Because the old clown is indomitable pursuit of his dream, he figures a way to survive disaster after disaster as Cosmos Brothers caravans from one town to another." #00642.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 573
- Title
- The Spangled Road
- Author
- Deal, Borden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: spine slightly cocked, foxing on FFEP, toning on endpapers. text clean, binding tight. Inscribed by the author on FFE
- Jacket Condition
- very good: corner and edge wear, age toning, minor chipping, hole in spine. NOT price clipped ($4.50)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- circus, first edition, fiction, signed
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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