A Duel of Hearts
by CARTLAND, Barbara
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
Item Price
A$71.68A$60.93
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Rich and Cowan, 1950 Scarce in dust jacket. Red cloth titled in gilt on spine. Tight and square, very light foxing in edges and endpapers, small gift inscription in front. Dust jacket is slightly clipped at front flap but not price clipped, 2 small corner tears, unfaded, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mainly Fiction
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020074
- Title
- A Duel of Hearts
- Author
- CARTLAND, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Rich and Cowan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Terms of Sale
Mainly Fiction
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About the Seller
Mainly Fiction
Biblio member since 2005
Auckland
About Mainly Fiction
We are a home-based business trading successfully for several years.New Zealand is a great source for the categories of books we are trading in.
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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