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The Dark Secret Of Josephine
by WHEATLEY, Dennis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hutchinson & Co, 1955. Hardback. First edition, 1955. [Historical Fiction].(21 x 14cm), pp.447. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Coloured map to endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Sax, priced at 15s. Jacket spine sunned with some rubbing and small closed tears to edges and spine. Very good. A Roger Brook story. Published: London: Hutchinson, 1955,
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6622
- Title
- The Dark Secret Of Josephine
- Author
- WHEATLEY, Dennis
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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