Behind the Stumps
by Evans, Godfrey
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1951. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. N/a. 254pp. 1951. First edition. 8vo. Flat signed in biro to the title page. A very good, clean, tight copy in good jacket. A crease running across the rear endpaper. A former owner's blue biro name and date to the extreme head of the front paste-down. The lower corner of the front board bumped. Slight foxing to the fore-edges and to the endpapers. The jacket has not been price-clipped. There are several short tears to the peripheries of the jacket - all expertly repaired. There is edgewear and rubbing to the jacket, a small chip to the tail of the rear panel, a crease to the lower corner of the front flap and tiny chips to several corners and to the head of the spine of the jacket. A very good, clean, tight signed copy in good only jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 236198
- Title
- Behind the Stumps
- Author
- Evans, Godfrey
- Illustrator
- N/a
- Format/Binding
- Green Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Trumpington Fine Books Limited
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...