Beauty and the Beast
by Kathleen Norris
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. 341 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Mild cracking to gutters on occasion, slightly exposing netting. Binding is slightly shaky, however pages remain firmly attached. Occasional dog-eared corners. Minor brown marks to text block edges, rear endpaper, and pastedown. Text is clear and legible. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Minor wear marks to boards. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped jacket, price still present. Panels and spine have heavy edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Moderate loss and tears to flaps, spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1668090009MEP
- Title
- Beauty and the Beast
- Author
- Kathleen Norris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
- Date Published
- 1928
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.