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Raffles The Amateur Cracksman
by E. W. Hornung
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1950. First Edition Thus. 292 pages. Red and beige dust jacket over red cloth boardswith gilt lettering to spine and front. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Introduction by Anthony Powell. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to pages at gutters. Occasional foxing. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Minor dog eared corners. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to spine and edges causing discolouration.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1635859684LSA
- Title
- Raffles The Amateur Cracksman
- Author
- E. W. Hornung
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
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