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The Buried Day (Signed)
by Day Lewis, C
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 244pp, 12 black and white photographic plates. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on black spine label. Bumped spine ends. Slightly cocked. Text block edges sunned and foxing. Front gutter strained. Signed by author on a label in blue pen and pasted to front pastedown 'C Day Lewis.' Previous owner's name and address on front pastedown, and gift inscription on front free endpaper. One of the plates laid-in. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring occasional foxing. Dust jacket in Bordart style sleeve, has small areas of loss at spine head, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. Flaps foxed. 8vo. The first volume of Cecil Day Lewis's autobiography covering the period from his birth to 1940.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011630
- Title
- The Buried Day (Signed)
- Author
- Day Lewis, C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Signed Books, Cecil Day Lewis, Literary Biography
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About the Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent
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Glossary
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
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