William Heinemann Ltd, 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1936. First Edition. 515 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to front hinge with exposed binding, causing board to be slightly loose. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Book is slightly forward leaning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Reinforced with tape to insides. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Dark rubbing and foxing to all surfaces. Water stain to spine.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1632722271MHP
Title: They Walk in the City: the Lovers in the Stone Forest
Author: J.B. Priestley
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Date Published: 1936

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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....
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...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...