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Brocky
by Sylvia Shepherd
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Longmans, 1964. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1964. First Edition. 79 pages. Colour photographic dust jacket over grey cloth with a colour photographic frontis. There is also photographic black and white plates throughout. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions and sticker to front endpaper and visible foxing to text block edges. Boards have heavy foxing and visible sunning. Moderate bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Visible sunning to spine. Clipped jacket with visible edge wear and area of loss to front. Visible rubbing and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and sunning to interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1628658319LSA
- Title
- Brocky
- Author
- Sylvia Shepherd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans
- Date Published
- 1964
Terms of Sale
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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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- 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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
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