Collins, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1963. 2nd impression. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Includes photographic plates. Pages have pronounced foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Water staining to page edges and margins, not affecting text. Text block edges intensely foxed. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Spine is slightly sunned. Gilt is bright. Book has a slight forward lean.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1654603584LSA
Title: Miracle on the River Kwai
Author: Ernest Gordon
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Collins
Date Published: 1963

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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....
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...