William Heinemann Ltd, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth with gilt spine titles, light edgewear, sunning to spine. Spine cocked forward slightly. Binding cracked to mull at half title, but intact, and else sound. Textblock edges foxed, with additional foxing to interior at first and last few pages. Small early bookseller's ticket at front paste down, and bookplate at FFEP. Interior else clean, text unmarked.

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Bookseller: The Book Bin (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BBS-2016477
Title: Patches of Sunlight
Author: Lord Dunsany
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Date Published: 1938
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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The Book Bin is a locally owned and operated business that has been in the same family since 1983. We are an ABA- and ABAA-affiliated general-interest bookstore with two stores in Salem and Corvallis, Oregon. We have over 30,000 items listed for sale online, and a dedicated rare book room in our Salem location. Books in our rare book room cover a wide range of subjects, with a focus on science fiction, fantasy and horror, literature and poetry, metaphysics, and children's books.

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Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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....
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...