London: Victor Gollancz. Fair in Poor dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. "First cheap edition". 192 pages. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. No signatures. Some browning throughout. Page edges browned. Uneven fading to covers. Large chips missing from dustwrapper. Staining and foxing to dustwrapper. ; 12mo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002750
Title: A Man Called Jones
Author: Symons, Julian
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair in Poor dust jacket
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1949
Keywords: Fiction Literature English Crime Detective Murder

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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Dustwrapper: Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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...
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....
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...