The Freebooters
by Tranter, Nigel
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London and Melbourne: Ward Lock & Co. Limited, 1950. Some damp staining to rear top corner, boards rubbed in places, spine sunned, text on spine worn, edgeworn, spine edges worn, bookplate to fep, light spotting to closed edges and to endpapers, pp clean and text clear to read, binding slightly cocked but pp secure.. First Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16598
- Title
- The Freebooters
- Author
- Tranter, Nigel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ward Lock & Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London and Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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