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Gold from Crete
by Forester, C.S
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0718108426
- ISBN 13
- 9780718108427
- Seller
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First edition, first printing. Jacket design by Graham Humphreys. Publishers blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Binding tight with minor pushing to spine ends. Small mark to back top edge. Fox spotting to text block edge. Small pen marks against books in list of books by C.S. Forester to verso of half title, small ink underline to date on copyright page otherwise content clean and bright. Jacket price clipped with chipping to spine ends and folds, small 1 cm closed tear to back bottom edge, rubbing to edges of flaps, small stain internally which shows through to front. Not ex-library. No names nor inscriptions. 194 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Soin2Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002108
- Title
- Gold from Crete
- Author
- Forester, C.S
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0718108426
- ISBN 13
- 9780718108427
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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