The Birds Fall Down
by Rebecca West
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Viking Press, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1966. First Edition. 435 pages. Red and blue patterned illustrated dust jacket over quarter bound beige cloth with blue paper illustrated covered boards. Red lettering to spine. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Lettering is darkened slightly. Surface damage to edges and back board. Jacket in 3 fragile pieces. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy chips, tears and creasing. Spine head many insect holes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1634637240ADA
- Title
- The Birds Fall Down
- Author
- Rebecca West
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1966
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.