Winston Churchill
by J.G.Lockhart
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Gerald Duckworth, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 158 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pencil markings to half title page. Moderate loss to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Lettering is clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Minor tape repairs to spine. Moderate tanning to flaps, panels and spine. Jacket is in removable plastic cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1645710791TMB
- Title
- Winston Churchill
- Author
- J.G.Lockhart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth
- Date Published
- 1951
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...