The Purple Valley
by Saville, Malcolm
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Children's Book Club, 1965. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boards clean with some bumping to bottom corners. Lean to spine. Light foxing to front end paper/pastedown. Spotting to closed edges. Shelf wear to dust jacket includes rubbing , bumping and dampstaining.. Hard. Very Good/Good. 12mo.
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Details
- Seller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 79658
- Title
- The Purple Valley
- Author
- Saville, Malcolm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- The Children's Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...