The Courts of Idleness
by Dornford Yates
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
No publication date listed. Likely 1930s, priced 3/6 net on dust jacket. Jacket foxed with closed tear to fold of spine with rear panel. Spine of jacket darkened. Some creasing to cloth at spine. Light rubbing to board edges. some foxing to page edges. Unmarked and internally clean pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roxanna Nazari, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1232
- Title
- The Courts of Idleness
- Author
- Dornford Yates
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- ND
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Roxanna Nazari, Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Roxanna Nazari, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2022
Norwalk, Connecticut
About Roxanna Nazari, Bookseller
A former lawyer and life-long bibliophile and book collector, I am embarking on a new career as a bookseller. I am particularly interested in golden age detective fiction, but have eclectic tastes. I attended YABS in 2021.
Glossary
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...