The Uncertain Element
by Kay Dick ( Jeremy Scott)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Jarrolds Publishers, 1950. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [1-8][9-273] [274 - 280 Bibliography of the fantastic] This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) in a Very Good Dust Jacket which is not price clipped. No date and with no statement of Second Impression so therefore the true first printing. Wear to the jacket, creasing to the spine of the jacket, the book is tight and clean , with light spotting.. Stories by Walter de la Mare, Nora Lofts, Sir Max Beerbohm, James Stephens, Aleister Crowley, Olivia Manning, Henry James, and others. Uncommon as a first printing. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013344
- Title
- The Uncertain Element
- Author
- Kay Dick ( Jeremy Scott)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Jarrolds Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Kay Dick ( Jeremy Scott).The Uncertain Element, first edition
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Kelleher Rare Books
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Naas, Kildare
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- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.