The Glitter and the Gold
by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William Heinemann Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. Reprint. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Colour frontispiece with B&W photographs throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Tape repair along gutter at p51. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Moderate sunning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1710937722LEE
- Title
- The Glitter and the Gold
- Author
- Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Date Published
- 1953
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...