Idly Oddly
by JENNINGS, PAUL
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Max Reinhardt, 1959. Hardback. First edition, 1959. Condition: Good. Dust jacket condition: Fair. 145 pages. Clipped pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Bright pages with moderate to severe tanning to endpapers and page edges. Gift inscription on front endpaper, with slight rubbing and a couple of tiny nicks to text block edges. Occasional finger marking throughout. Light tanning along spine and board edges. Forward leaning. Mild rub wears to surfaces and edges with crushing to spine ends and minor bumps to corners. Mildly chipped dust jacket has a few creases, scuffs and small tears. Light tanning. Rubbing with shelf wear. Published: Max Reinhardt., 1959
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5161
- Title
- Idly Oddly
- Author
- JENNINGS, PAUL
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Max Reinhardt
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- First Edition
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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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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