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Good Savouries
by Ambrose Heath
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seventh impression of the first edition originally published in 1934. Dust jacket has some shelf wear and a small tear to base of spine. It is not price clipped. Clear protective plastic sleeve fitted to dust jacket. Red cloth boards with silvergilt lettering to spine.Pages are age tanned but clean. Binding is tight. 12mo. A very good copy 1950
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- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5480
- Title
- Good Savouries
- Author
- Ambrose Heath
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Reader’s Books
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
Reader’s Books
Biblio member since 2019
Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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