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Old Men Forget: The Autobiography of Duff Cooper
by Duff Cooper
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- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 399 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to free endpapers. Pencil markings to front pastdown. Ownership plate stuck to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a slight forward lean.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1638540754IEV
- Title
- Old Men Forget: The Autobiography of Duff Cooper
- Author
- Duff Cooper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Date Published
- 1953
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- Gutter
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- 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....
- Rubbing
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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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
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