Garden Open Today
by Beverley Nichols
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Jonathan Cape, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1964. Reprint. 252 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial jacket over orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Flat signed by author to title page. Pages are lightly tanned, with mild foxing to edges, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's inscription to half title page. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Gilt remains bright. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket. Light tanning and foxing to all surfaces. Minimal edgewear, with mild creasing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1672317085MHP
- Title
- Garden Open Today
- Author
- Beverley Nichols
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Date Published
- 1964
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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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...