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Book Collecting : A Beginner's Guide
by Stewart, Seumas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0715352644
- ISBN 13
- 9780715352649
- Seller
-
ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Newton Abbot: David & Charles. Good/Good. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0715352644 Illustrated jacket, price clipped. Very small wear to bottom front corner of jacket. Green cloth with bright gilt titles to spine. Very slight rubbing to top and bottom edges (shelfwear), otherwise very good. No inscriptions. Black and white illustrations. 322 pages clean and tight. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128810
- Title
- Book Collecting : A Beginner's Guide
- Author
- Stewart, Seumas
- Illustrator
- Black and white Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0715352644
- ISBN 13
- 9780715352649
- Publisher
- David & Charles
- Place of Publication
- Newton Abbot
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- COLLECTING
Terms of Sale
CHARLES BOSSOM
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Please contact me if you have any problem with your order by e-mail charles.bossom@googlemail.com
About the Seller
CHARLES BOSSOM
Biblio member since 2010
ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
Charles Bossom has worked in the Book Trade since 1963, commencing at WH Smith Oxford and retiring in 1999 as Regional Manager Central England. The Charles Bossom bookselling business was started in early 2000. We offer a changing selection of old and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects. We frequently add new items to our stock so visit us regularly.
Glossary
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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...
- 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....
- 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.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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