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Trustee from the Toolroom
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William Heinemann,. Hardback. First edition. 284pp. Novel, published posthumously, with a very attractive dust jacket illustrated by Renato Fratini. Red cloth with gilt titles to the spine has very slight fading to spine ends else very clean and neat. Dust jacket is rubbed and creased to edges with some splitting to folds and a significant tear into the tail of the dust jacket spine. Some small loss to the dust jacket spine ends. Not price clipped. Very good copy in chipped and torn dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1960.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22909
- Title
- Trustee from the Toolroom
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann,
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Nevil Shute,First editions,First edition novels,Fiction,Renato Fratini
Terms of Sale
C L Hawley
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
Biblio member since 2005
Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
We are a member of the PBFA and ibooknet -www.ibooknet.co.uk Our specialisms are academic books particularly literary criticism, literary biography, literary texts and literary and critical theory, history, plus some philosophy, psychology, politics and religion. We also stock local history books, mainly on Yorkshire. We also stock children's literature. We have a small general stock in the wider academic arts and humanities.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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