The Delicate Darling
by Jack Webb
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
T V Boardman and Co Ltd, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1960. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Pages 79 to 82 are detached but present. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Tearing to page 189, text remains readable. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Light scuffing and foxing to surfaces. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning. White marking to bottom spine end.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1623343400PRI
- Title
- The Delicate Darling
- Author
- Jack Webb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T V Boardman and Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1960
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...