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Holy Orders: The Tragedy of a Quiet Life
by Corelli, Marie
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Montmorillon, France
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About This Item
London: Methuen, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First printing. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. 40pp publisher's catalogue dated June 1908 bound in at the back. Cloth a touch marked and spine sunned else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Glass Key
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11326
- Title
- Holy Orders: The Tragedy of a Quiet Life
- Author
- Corelli, Marie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
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About The Glass Key
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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