The Picnic Basket
by Edward Spears
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Secker & Warburg, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. Reprinted. 224 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Flat signed by author to front free endpaper. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Top textblock edge dyed purple. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear and water marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Minor wear marks to spine and panels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1687862921DPB
- Title
- The Picnic Basket
- Author
- Edward Spears
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Date Published
- 1967
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...