Gently Down the Stream
by Alan Hunter
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good -
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957. First Edition. Octavo. 186 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver.
Unclipped dust jacket chipped along edges with several closed tears, amateur tape repair to recto and verso, and a small slit to spine adjacent to interior tape remnant from earlier affixed mylar cover, along with some general soiling and smudging (more noticeable on white back panel).. Half-inch vertical crack to front board at bottom center, with boards otherwise lightly shelfworn and nudged at spine ends. Binding is sound. Brief pen markings to front free endpapers but otherwise pages unmarked.
Unclipped dust jacket chipped along edges with several closed tears, amateur tape repair to recto and verso, and a small slit to spine adjacent to interior tape remnant from earlier affixed mylar cover, along with some general soiling and smudging (more noticeable on white back panel).. Half-inch vertical crack to front board at bottom center, with boards otherwise lightly shelfworn and nudged at spine ends. Binding is sound. Brief pen markings to front free endpapers but otherwise pages unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9181
- Title
- Gently Down the Stream
- Author
- Alan Hunter
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...