Wandering Wind
by B.B
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Hanley Swan, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, 1961. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6. D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. 121pp, not price clipped, ex library copy lacking front end paper and with library stamp to inside of title page, no other library markings or inscriptions. Wrapper is lightly rubbed especially at top and bottom of spine which has a tiny chip to top. there is no fading. Wrapper is now in removable clear protective sleeve. Clean copy internally with only slight spotting to edge of text block, and the odd dirty mark to page edges, no loose pages. Happy to supply photos on request.
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- Seller
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 023679
- Title
- Wandering Wind
- Author
- B.B
- Illustrator
- D.J. Watkins-Pitchford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 12mo - over 6
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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Hanley Swan, Worcestershire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- 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...
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