The Greater Trumps
by Charles Williams
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Faber & Faber Ltd, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. New Edition. 230 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over purple cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning to interior flaps, panels and spine. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.
Reviews
On Dec 15 2008, Ytriem said:
I read this book fifty years ago. I remember thinking that the characters were a bit wooden and then being swept away by the story. I thought it was first rate fantasy. Very Christian, inevitably, in spite of the Taro cards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1709631129MEP
- Title
- The Greater Trumps
- Author
- Charles Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber Ltd
- Date Published
- 1954
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...