It's Perfectly True! and Other Stories
by Hans Christian Andersen
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macmillan & Co, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1937. No edition stated. 338 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Book has been rebound. Translated by Paul Leyssac. Illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen. With illustrated frontispiece. Text block edges are decoratively speckled. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. A few dog-eared corners. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Spine is noticeably sunned. A few small ink spots to rear. Dust-marked to front. Gilt is bright. Book has a moderate forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1640206522CBF
- Title
- It's Perfectly True! and Other Stories
- Author
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co
- Date Published
- 1937
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...