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The Daughter of Time
by Tey, Josephine
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Reprint. Ex-library copy but with stamps, pockets, labels etc to front and back endpapers only - no stamps in text. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Binding firm. Book has forward lean. Light fox spotting / brown marks in text and to text block edges. Jacket clipped, tears and light chipping to spine ends and fold ends, light surface marking. 222 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
Synopsis
Josephine Tey began writing full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. She died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.
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Details
- Seller
- Soin2Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 002700
- Title
- The Daughter of Time
- Author
- Tey, Josephine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Peter Davies Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Pages
- 222
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
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