J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1953. First Edition. 241 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have mild rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and splitting to joints. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and heavy sunning to interior.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1638554559DPB
Title: Lawnswood Chronicles
Author: David Gunston
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable/Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
Date Published: 1953

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
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....