Tom's Midnight Garden
by A. Philippa Pearce
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Oxford University Press, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1962. Reprint. 229 pages. Pictorial dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages with noticeable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild droplet marks to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Notable scratching and marking to boards. Tiny droplets to boards. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine tail of spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1695033648ABS
- Title
- Tom's Midnight Garden
- Author
- A. Philippa Pearce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1962
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...