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As It Was
by Fred B. Alcock
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with some scuffs to both panels. Text c
- ISBN 10
- 0950619205
- ISBN 13
- 9780950619200
- Seller
-
Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sherborne: Amateur Players, 1978. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with some scuffs to both panels. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Signed copy. Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine & upper board) Physically 8¾” x 6¼” (0.8 kg); 133pp; Preface by Gerald H. D. Pitman; Signed by the author, with dedication, on the title page — without provenance. Contains: Black & white photographs; Frontispiece; ISBN: 0-950-61920-5 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #184996|| Condition:
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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 184996
- Title
- As It Was
- Author
- Fred B. Alcock
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with some scuffs to both panels. Text c
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0950619205
- ISBN 13
- 9780950619200
- Publisher
- Sherborne: Amateur Players
- Place of Publication
- Sherborne
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- dorset town, amateur players, sherborne theatre, operatic societies, dramatic societies, gilbert sullivan, play, first edition books, signed by author, books written by fred b alcock, books introduced by gerald h d pitman, 0-950-61920-5
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance;
Terms of Sale
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BookLovers of Bath
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset
About BookLovers of Bath
BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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- Rubbing
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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