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The Drinking Well
by Neil M, Gunn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/GD
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK ""UNCOMMON,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1946 * Publisher: Faber & Faber. * Binding and cover condition: Emerald green cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear and slight marks to lower edges and tail of spine otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper, red on beige, spine age darkened. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 10/6d. Spine edges and flap folds show considerable shelf wear. Frayed and chipped to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Minor losses, now re-inforced and in a clear un-attached protective wrapper. GD. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Gift dedication, dated May 1947 in pen to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to end papers, all edges age darkened & lightly spotted, otherwise no visible faults. INTERESTINGLY THIS ITEM BEARS A SYDNEY BOOKSELLER'S LABEL. VG+.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 464 pp. text. ii pp. blank at rear.* Description: Iain Cattanach loves to play the fiddle and wander the hills tending his father's sheep. However, his self-sacrificing mother has other plans for him. A position in an Edinburgh legal firm is secured for Iain and he is forced to leave the countryside he loves. The city is alluring and sophisticated but, ultimately, events force him to return to Torglas and to face up to his family and long-time companion, Mary Cameron. This work contains beautiful characterization and evocative description of early 20th-century Edinburgh..* A VG++ copy of the 1st./1st. with some age and wear in a GOOD protected dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10063
- Title
- The Drinking Well
- Author
- Neil M, Gunn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/GD
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st, 1st. Imp.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Date Published
- 1946-01-01
- Pages
- 466
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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