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Mr Five Per Cent: The Biography of Calouste Gulbenkian
by Ralph Hewins
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hutchinson of London, 1957. Hardcover. Good. 1957. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Maps across endpapers. Black and white photographs. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil annotations to endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and rubbing and heavy staining all over. Spine heavily sunned. Gilt lettering is dulled.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1693820011MEP
- Title
- Mr Five Per Cent: The Biography of Calouste Gulbenkian
- Author
- Ralph Hewins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson of London
- Date Published
- 1957
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
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