Rogue's Gambit
by Caillou, Alan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Peter Davies, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. N/a. 242pp. 1955. First edition. A very good, clean, tight copy in like wrapper - designed by Biro. Gilt embossed title to original publisher's brick-red cloth spine. No inscriptions. Some foxing - chiefly to the fore-edge - scattered elsewhere. The wrapper has not been price-clipped. Some light rubbing to the peripheries of the wrapper. A 6mm tear to the tail of the rear panel - now expertly repaired. A well preserved copy of this first edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 228666
- Title
- Rogue's Gambit
- Author
- Caillou, Alan
- Illustrator
- N/a
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Peter Davies
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾&quo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Trumpington Fine Books Limited
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...