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Brass Chandelier: A Biography of R. H. Best of Birmingham
by R. D. Best
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1940. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1940. First Edition. 251 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates, and fold-out graph. Signed by the author, with dedication to Cyril Carter. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks and rub marks along text block edge. Pencil inscription to front paste-down. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning to edges. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Graph is lightly tanned, with mild edge-wear. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Liquid drop on front board. Clipped jacket has light surface wear, with small tears and creasing to spine ends, edges and corners. Lightly tanned overall.
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- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1691065143ADA
- Title
- Brass Chandelier: A Biography of R. H. Best of Birmingham
- Author
- R. D. Best
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1940
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- 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....
- First Edition
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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