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Fly Away Paul
by Victor Canning
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1936. First Edition. 324 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Decorated green cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Some pages are loose from binding, including title page. Creasing to edges of pages. Scuffed paper remnants to front pastedown and rear endpaper. Binding is very shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Book is notably bowed and forward leaning. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Brown marking overall.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1643266687LSA
- Title
- Fly Away Paul
- Author
- Victor Canning
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Reynal & Hitchcock
- Date Published
- 1936
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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