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The Silent Traveller in London
by YEE, Chiang
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Silent Traveller in London
YEE, Chiang
Country Life Limited, London, 1946, hardback with dust wrapper, GD+/gd+, boards yellow/black, colour frontispiece in addition to 12 monotone plates and numerous line illustrations in the text, 264 pp.
Boards clean and firm, several small impact marks to lower edge of back board, neat dedication to front free end paper, no annotations, sound tight binding, lean to the spine, pages lightly tanned, foxing to edges of text block and end papers. Appreciable shelf wear to wrapper (see scans), price clipped, now protected by acid free archive film. Lovely copy in spite of wear and tear to wrapper.
TRAVEL, THE SILENT TRAVELLER, CHIANG YEE, LONDON, ILLUSTRATED, PRE-WAR EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS
46673 TRAVEL £14.50
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- Bookseller
- Daisyroots Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46673
- Title
- The Silent Traveller in London
- Author
- YEE, Chiang
- Illustrator
- Chiang Yee
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Country Life Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 264 pp.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- TRAVEL, THE SILENT TRAVELLER, CHIANG YEE, LONDON, ILLUSTRATED, PRE-WAR EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS
Terms of Sale
Daisyroots Books Ltd
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About the Seller
Daisyroots Books Ltd
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria
About Daisyroots Books Ltd
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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