The Old Reliable
by Wodehouse, P. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's signature. Some splitting to gutter at rear hinge. Dust-jacket missing upper 1" from front panel. Extensive paper tape repairs on reverse side of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing. 233, [3] pages. Orange boards with black titles on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 186 x 124mm. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20316
- Title
- The Old Reliable
- Author
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1951)
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
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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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....