The Old Reliable
by Wodehouse, P. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's name on front endpaper. Moderate foxing to page edges. A couple of small stains to front board. Small ink scribble to front panel of dust wrapper. Heavy rubbing and creasing to much of dust wrapper. Some dampstains to dust wrapper, not affecting boards. 1" tear and 3/8" missing at tail of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. 3/8" tears and chips at corners of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped ("9/6"). Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing. 233, [3] pages. Orange boards with black titles on spine and front board. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5840
- Title
- The Old Reliable
- Author
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....