Corsica: the Scented Isle
by D Archer
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Methuen and Co Ltd, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. Second Edition. 212 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth. Flat signed by author to front pastedown. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and plates have light tanning and medium foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Tears to cloth to spine edges. Dents to both boards. White staining to top edge of front board.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1645534120MHP
- Title
- Corsica: the Scented Isle
- Author
- D Archer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen and Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...