The Awakening Giant
by Bill Beatty
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cassell and Co. Ltd, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1961. First Edition Thus. 180 pages. Pictorial jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages are mildly tanned, but text remains clear. Plates are bright. Binding is firm. Price inscription to title page. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Moderate sunning to board edges and spine ends. A couple noticeable marks to front board. Book has a slight backwards lean. Unclipped jacket. Mild foxing to all surfaces. Heavy water staining to spine. Heavy edgewear, with visible rips and chipping, and some areas of loss. Some visible marks overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1672830923MHP
- Title
- The Awakening Giant
- Author
- Bill Beatty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell and Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1961
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...