HIS WAS THE FIRE
by STYLES, SHOWELL:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, New Zealand
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, London, 1956. First edition, red cloth, 284pp, VG+ (v sl cocked, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl paste action to eps, v sl foxed eps & edges & spasmodically throughout) d/w VG+ (NOT price clipped, v sl wear to extrems, v sl soiled & rubbed, mod sunned, v sl internal foxing)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57361
- Title
- HIS WAS THE FIRE
- Author
- STYLES, SHOWELL:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, London, 1956
- Keywords
- modern first edition showell styles
- Bookseller catalogs
- modern first edition childrens;
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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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.