Rookery Nook
by Ben Travers
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
BACUP, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Rookery Nook by Ben Travers (John Lane The Bodley Head, reprint 1937).
Originally published in 1923, this copy being a later reprint. Dustwrapper art by J. M. Pollock.
Hardback – publisher's cloth over boards with title to spine and front board, with coloured vertical line design to boards, in dustwrapper. 315pp, [4] publisher's catalogue. 7.5 x 5.25 inches approx. (190mm x 133mm).
Dustwrapper showing some light wear and rubbing to spine ends and corner tips; a touch dusty; occasional short edge tear; label showing handwritten 3/- price adhered to spine. Cloth a touch dusty otherwise clean and bright; foxing to pages throughout but generally clean; offsetting to rear endpaper; some pages roughly cut; edges of page-block spotted and toned; first page gathering proud of page-block.
Overall, a particularly well preserved copy – very attractive in its dustwrapper.
*International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*
Originally published in 1923, this copy being a later reprint. Dustwrapper art by J. M. Pollock.
Hardback – publisher's cloth over boards with title to spine and front board, with coloured vertical line design to boards, in dustwrapper. 315pp, [4] publisher's catalogue. 7.5 x 5.25 inches approx. (190mm x 133mm).
Dustwrapper showing some light wear and rubbing to spine ends and corner tips; a touch dusty; occasional short edge tear; label showing handwritten 3/- price adhered to spine. Cloth a touch dusty otherwise clean and bright; foxing to pages throughout but generally clean; offsetting to rear endpaper; some pages roughly cut; edges of page-block spotted and toned; first page gathering proud of page-block.
Overall, a particularly well preserved copy – very attractive in its dustwrapper.
*International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DBZ1226
- Title
- Rookery Nook
- Author
- Ben Travers
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane The Bodley Head
- Date Published
- 1937
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dustwrapper Art, Literature, Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller PBFA
Biblio member since 2019
BACUP, Lancashire
About D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller PBFA
D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller ~ a small general stock with an interest in Northern Topography, Transport, Industrial History, Art & Illustrated, and Children's Books. Selling books online and exhibiting at book fairs in the North of England. Member of the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Publisher's cloth
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.