Early Stages
by John Gielgud
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Falcon Press, London, 1948. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Cloth Boards with Dust Jacket, 8vo, 249 pages, b/w plates very good, boards have slight creasing, Dust Jacket has medium yellowing, rubbing and foxing, medium creasing, some small tears and holes, pc, page edges have yellowed, mild foxing, medium sunning to endpaper, otherwise pages clean. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Theatre & Plays; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: X23655. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- X23655
- Title
- Early Stages
- Author
- John Gielgud
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Publisher
- The Falcon Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- BZDB1 autobiography actor acting john gielgud britain Theatre & Plays; John Gielgud Early Stages
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre & Plays;
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- PC
- Partially chipped (dustjacket)
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.