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The Paper Dolls
by Davies, L. P
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some bruising to tail of spine. Minor scrape to top page edges. 1/2" tears and a couple of 3/8" chips at ends of dust wrapper spine. A 3" tear in rear panel of dust wrapper. A 1" tear and several 1/2" tears in edges of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 224 pages. Maroon boards with gilt lettering on spine. The author's first book. "When you have read this book you may never again be able to look at a group of schoolboys without a flicker of doubt . . ." - from dust wrapper blurb.; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6933
- Title
- The Paper Dolls
- Author
- Davies, L. P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1964)
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:
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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