A Child of the Revolution [First Edition]
by Baroness Orczy
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cassell and Company Limited, 1932. Hardcover. Good. 1932. First Edition. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with black lettering to spine. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Small red mark to title page. Text block edges and pastedowns slightly scuffed. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has strong forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed. Some bleach spotting overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1703237908CTS
- Title
- A Child of the Revolution [First Edition]
- Author
- Baroness Orczy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company Limited
- Date Published
- 1932
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....