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CAIRO TO RIYADH DIARY (SIGNED)
by BILAINKIN George
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good, with dusty top edge and a little shelfwear. In fair dust jacket, chipped at corners with light soiling and creasing.
- Seller
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About This Item
London,, 1950. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Good, with dusty top edge and a little shelfwear. In fair dust jacket, chipped at corners with light soiling and creasing.. 8vo. pp x, 233. Black and white illustrated dust jacket, lettered in red. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Illustrations in black and white. Signed by the author to Sir Alfred Bossom, once Conservative MP for Maidstone; ""For Alfred C Bossom, in friendship, greetings, George Bilainkin, August 1950.""
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- Bookseller
- Any Amount of Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C60685
- Title
- CAIRO TO RIYADH DIARY (SIGNED)
- Author
- BILAINKIN George
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, with dusty top edge and a little shelfwear. In fair dust jacket, chipped at corners with light soiling and creasing.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London,
- Date Published
- 1950
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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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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