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The Old Reliable
by Wodehouse, P. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
Item Price
£66.14£49.60
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Jacket price clipped, lightly edge worn. Rear inside hinge tender; Original orange cloth, black lettering; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 236 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Haymes & Co.
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B6175
- Title
- The Old Reliable
- Author
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- English Literature, Modern First
Terms of Sale
Haymes & Co.
Al l books are sold as complete or as otherwise described. Any item found to be not as described may be returned within 7 days of purchase.
About the Seller
Haymes & Co.
Biblio member since 2022
Kingscliff, New South Wales
About Haymes & Co.
Haymes & Co. are 6th generation antiquarian booksellers. Our foundations trace back to Rotterdam, Holland, in the early 19th century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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