Best of Friends: Further Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
by Viola Meynell (ed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Rupert Hart-Davis, London; first edition, 1956. The boards, in green cloth, have rubbing and light edgewear. The top edge of the text block has been discoloured slightly by dust. Internally, the book is clean and bright and tightly bound. There are no markings or inscriptions. The jacket has spotting to front and back and minor edgewear at both ends of spine. The front cover has been sunned along the top and righthand edges (there is also sunning to the extremely lefthand edge of the back cover, and the edges of both flaps). There is a tear about an inch long at top right of front cover that has been taped. Jacket is in protective wrapper.
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- Bookseller
- Rob Gibson Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2510/E/1
- Title
- Best of Friends: Further Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
- Author
- Viola Meynell (ed)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
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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...
- Text Block
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.