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Happy Returns
by Angela Thirkell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good.
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950. Hardcover. Good.. 8vo.. First printing of the First Edition. Dust jacket has small tears, scuffing to edges and wear to front cover. Spine is faded and stained. Not price clipped. Pages are age tanned with spotting to endpapers and prelims but otherwise clean. Binding is tight. 8vo. One of Thirkell's Barsetshire novels. 1950
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5328
- Title
- Happy Returns
- Author
- Angela Thirkell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo.
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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:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...