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The Girl on the Boat
by P. G. Wodehouse
- Used
- good
- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Chelmsford, Essex
Item Price:
£225.00
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About This Item
First edition, first impression (Herbert Jenkins, 1922). Advertisements at rear, occasional light spotting throughout, front hinge tender and cracked, small presentation inscription to front paste-down, original orange pictorial cloth, spine faded with closed tears at ends, edges rubbed. Later issue 5'- dust jacket by William Heath Robinson (circa 1940). Tear along front flap and several tears to front panel, small chips and tears to edges.
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Details
- book dealer
- Fine Book Cellar Limited ABA ILAB PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 1476183138400
- Title
- The Girl on the Boat
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Book condition
- second hand - Good
- Jacket condition
- Good
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins Ltd
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Wodehouse, first, girl on the boat
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; P. G. Wodehouse;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Chelmsford, Essex
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About Fine Book Cellar Limited ABA ILAB PBFA
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- paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an... [more]
- 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.... [more]
- 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... [more]
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched... [more]
- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps... [more]
- hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,... [more]
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