A Drake At the Door
by Derek Tangye
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Michael Joseph. Fair in Poor dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. ****Reading copy due to the fact that it has previously been repaired internally with white binding tape at the margins, and appears to have the dw sealed beneath some adhesive clear plastic cover, and then placed underneath the paste-down papers inside, giving it the appearance of a laminated pictorial covered book. Covers are very sl yellowed, with tanning to the text block edge. Tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lion Books PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77022
- Title
- A Drake At the Door
- Author
- Derek Tangye
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Natural History, BIOGRAPHY
Terms of Sale
Lion Books PBFA
Full refund if found to be not as described. For all other reasons e.g. damage, change of mind then book value only. Please contact within 14 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Lion Books PBFA
Biblio member since 2005
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
About Lion Books PBFA
We are general secondhand booksellers, est 1987, with a medium size stock and we specialise in sporting books. Particularly Football (soccer), Fishing and Motorsport.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...