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This Was The Old Chief's Country
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Michael Joseph. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Some spotting to page edges. Fading to dust wrapper spine. 5/8" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" tear at head of rear joint of dust wrapper spine. 3/4" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" x 1/2" tear at head of rear panel of dust wrapper. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 256 pages. First printing. Brown boards with gilt titles on spine. Page Dimensions: 185mm x 122mm. Short stories. The author's second book. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 256 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6862
- Title
- This Was The Old Chief's Country
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- English Literature
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
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