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This Guy Marciano
by Diamond Wilfrid
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
-
Carmarthen, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Kingswood, Surrey, UK: The World's Work. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1955. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. In overall a very clean red cloth with clear black titles to spine, a dark stain near the inner side of the top of the spine - fairly negligible - all titling deep and clear. In the original un-clipped publisher's dust-jacket which has a dark stain to the top of the spine, a chunk torn away from the edge of the spine and now lacking the title on the front cover o/w the rest of the d/j is present and is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks much better. See Images. The page fore-edges have some light toning and pale spotting (foxing) with age, but are generally clean. Internally excellent with NO Inscriptions or Marks. 158 pp. Plain end-papers, with very slight offsetting. 8 b/w photo Illustrations of Rocky Marciano in action in the Ring against various opponents. Overall a near VG Plus copy, just down-graded due to the faulty dustjacket. Quite Scarce. See Images; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 114933
- Title
- This Guy Marciano
- Author
- Diamond Wilfrid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- The World's Work
- Place of Publication
- Kingswood, Surrey, UK
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- This Guy Marciano By Wilfrid Diamond, Rocky Marciano - Boxing Biography, Boxing - Sport
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sport & Games/Chess;
Terms of Sale
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Biblio member since 2006
Carmarthen
About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Retired Member of the P.B.F.A, and the WBA. In business for 42+ years to date, mainly working from home nowadays, and formerly exhibiting at Major London Book Fairs, and some Provincial ones within reach of the M4! View by Appointment ONLY Please, as I may be unavailable on the day you call. Happy to see customers but they have to be able to squeeze through the book aisles/piles! Unfortunately no wheelchair access. Currently only working part-time.
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- Cloth
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- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- VG
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