Fish Out of Water
by Gilbert Hackforth-Jones
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. Hardcover. Good. 1955. Second Impression. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and visible thumb-marking present. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and notable tanning to text block edges. Boards have light rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends and visible sunning to spine as well.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1620283346ADA
- Title
- Fish Out of Water
- Author
- Gilbert Hackforth-Jones
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1955
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....