Famous Diamonds
by Balfour, Ian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0004122461
- ISBN 13
- 9780004122465
- Seller
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, UK: Collins [0 00 412246 1] 1987. (hardcover) 224pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. Jacket is price clipped, shows light rubbing, with some light creasing, small tears to the lower rear panel. Black boards, silver title stamped to spine. There is a book platepasted to the front free endpaper; otherwise a clean, tight, bright, solid copy with colour, as well as black and white photographs. The stories of the world's best known diamonds, their histories, and their associated characters, be those owners, royalty, business people, bankers, brokers, smugglers, thieves, swindlers, and / or murderers..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spafford Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126936
- Title
- Famous Diamonds
- Author
- Balfour, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0004122461
- ISBN 13
- 9780004122465
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- This edition first published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Jewels, Curiosities, Diamonds, Esoterica, Jewels
- Bookseller catalogs
- Curiosities;
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Spafford Books
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About the Seller
Spafford Books
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Regina, Saskatchewan
About Spafford Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...