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The Emerald Atlas:The Books of Beginning 1
by Stephens, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0857530186
- ISBN 13
- 9780857530189
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: Doubleday.* Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. Minimal bumps to corners, no rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing fantasy castle, landscape and three silhouettes of children with the ?Atlas?. Green and yellow titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £12.99 to rear cover. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (midnight blue). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to lower edge & slight paper colouration throughout, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of b/w vignettes at chapter headings.* Pages: 417 pp. text. v pp., advertisements & notes at rear.* Description: They were snatched from their beds in the dead of night, when the world was covered in snow. Ten years on Kate, Michael and Emma have grown up in a string of miserable orphanages, and all memories of their parents have faded to a blur. Arriving at Cambridge Falls, the children quickly realise there is something different about this place - and Kate feels sure she has seen the dark, crooked house before. As they explore, they discover an old, empty leather book. The moment they touch it, an ancient magical prophecy is set irrevocably in motion, and the children are thrown into a dangerous alternate reality of dark enchantments and terrifying monsters. Only they can prevent the terrible event that will ruin Cambridge Falls - and stop the world from falling into complete devastation.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minor age, cover & jacket faults reducing it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5698
- Title
- The Emerald Atlas:The Books of Beginning 1
- Author
- Stephens, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0857530186
- ISBN 13
- 9780857530189
- Publisher
- Doubleday Childrens
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 432
- Date Published
- 2011-04-14
- Size
- 16.2 x 3.9 x 24 cm
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
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