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I Presume - Stanley'S Triumph and Disaster
by Ian Anstruther
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Geoffrey Bles, 1956. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1956. First Edition. 207 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates with fold-out map. Pages are lightly tanned with moderate foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front paste-down, with water drops a few small nicks along text block edge. Plates are lightly tanned with moderate foxing present at edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with slight corner bumping. Faint tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear, with chips, tears and creasing to edges, corners and spine ends. Pencil inscription on rear panel. Moderately tanned and foxed overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1688980574IEV
- Title
- I Presume - Stanley'S Triumph and Disaster
- Author
- Ian Anstruther
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles
- Date Published
- 1956
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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