The Happy Few : A School Story
by Page, Brenda
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor/NO DUST JACKET
- Seller
-
Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Cassell, 1929. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Poor, Binding is sound but page 9/10 is loose with leading edge torn & creased (no loss to text), shelfwear, abrasion & fraying to spine ends & corners, 3cm tear to spine heel rear hinge, blue boards with illustrated front board & spine are clean (though with a little fading), but spine is browned, all corners inflected, School Prize Bookplate on FFEP, bottom corner of half-title page has been torn off, soiling & foxing to pages/NO DUST JACKET. 185 pages, with black & white frontispiece. Digital image on request..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Klanhorn
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017852
- Title
- The Happy Few : A School Story
- Author
- Page, Brenda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- NO DUST JACKET
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
Klanhorn
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Books may be returned for any reason within 14 days of receipt, but the return postage is for the buyer's account unless the fault is ours (i.e. incorrect book sent etc). The cheaper postage rate is not for Surface Mail but for a consolidated (economy) rate - the expected delivery time being 21 - 45 days.
About the Seller
Klanhorn
Biblio member since 2006
Queanbeyan, NSW
About Klanhorn
We are internet-based booksellers, so our stock is not set-up for browsing. However, visitors are welcome if an appointment is made first. We specialise in fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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