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The Cherrys and Company
by Will Scott
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Brockhampton Press, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. First Edition. 125 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations by Lilian Buchanan throughout. Prize plate stuck to front endpaper. Clean pages with faint tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Notable water staining to pages throughout, most notable to p.17 and p.124. Pen inscription to half title page. Mild tanning and foxing to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable white stain to front board. Heavy sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Mild water stains and droplets to boards. Boards are moderately warped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1705685550DPB
- Title
- The Cherrys and Company
- Author
- Will Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Brockhampton Press
- Date Published
- 1953
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
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