HARDBACK ?OVER SIXTY YEARS OLD? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1949 (1948)* Publisher: Reprint Society. * Binding and cover condition: Bright red cloth, gilt title & border to black spine label. No bumps or rubs, slight wear. VG+* Jacket condition: Black paper dust wrapper. Black and white design & title to spine and face, not price clipped but showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and particularly to head & tail of spine. Slightly marked and aged with spine somewhat aged. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, some offsetting to end papers. Clean, crisp and tight with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, top edge coloured, some foxing to fore edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 316 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A fictional drama about an American citizen living a leisurely life in Europe at the start of World War II. Dr. Mark Bradley, who both as a scientist and as a man, faced some of the biggest problems of our times; and Jane who was only eighteen when she met him. She and her mother were both attracted by ?Brad?, and the situation thus engendered proved fateful, since it led to Brad's association with a great Viennese physicist and to his involvement in a tragic drama. Set in the late 1930s and then in America where pure science became a ?War Weapon? with possibilities of infinite disaster to the world.* A NEAR VG copy with some minor faults & dust jacket wear reducing it to GD++*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2347
Title: Nothing So Strange
Author: Hilton, James
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG/VG/GD++
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: The Reprint Society; London.
Place of Publication: London UK 316
Date Published: 1949-01-01

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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...
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...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Fore Edge: The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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...
Spine Label: The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
Tail: The heel of the spine.