Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1966. First Edition. 192 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Jacket is in plastic cover and taped to boards. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Brown staining to some pages, text remains readable. Tape to hinges, Brown tape staining to pastedowns and endpapers. Cracking to front hinge with exposed binding, causing board to be slightly loose. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning. Tape staining to boards. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Jacket is in plastic cover. Dark rubbing and marking to surfaces.

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Seller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Seller's Inventory #: 1634742429DPB
Title: Affair of the Rockerbye Baby
Author: Antonia Barber
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 1966

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
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...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.