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First edition
The Silver Chalice
Thomas B. Costain
Doubleday & Company, 1952. First edition, later printing.
$20One copy · this copy
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What we checked, and where to see itRCB-77c07fa33c9f · 8 photographs of this copy
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Title page: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1952
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Copyright page gives LC card number 52-8754 and "COPYRIGHT, 1952, BY THOMAS B. COSTAIN"
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Printed by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee
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NO "First Edition" statement present — Doubleday of this era marked its first printings explicitly
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Illustrated Rome/Jerusalem/Mediterranean endpaper maps present
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Pencil ownership name on front endpaper map
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Flaws, each one named
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heavy wear and chipping to head of spine
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sunned/rubbed spine cloth with fraying along edges
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rubbing and soiling to board edges and corners
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tanning/browning to page block and text leaves
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pencil ownership name on front endpaper map (~top-left, reads approx. "Dorothy Road")
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This copy
First edition
What a true first shows: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1952, cloth-backed pictorial boards, with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page
Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.