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City in the Sand
by Mary Chubb
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Geoffrey Bles, London, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". xii + 209pp. Binding firm, spine cocked and slightly faded. Dust Jacket marked, worn and chipped, with a couple of larger tears and some loss and internal tape repairs. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges foxed and browned. Covers partially faded. Corners slightly bumped. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Iraq; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 44722. .
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44722
- Title
- City in the Sand
- Author
- Mary Chubb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- BZDB243 bio, travel, Tell Asmar, Eshunna, Mesopotamia Archaeology; Iraq; History. Unbranded Mary Chubb City in the Sand
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology; History;
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Dreadnought Books
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About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
Biblio member since 2013
Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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