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Mermaid Singing
by Clift, Charmian
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- good
- Seller
-
GLEBE, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
UK: Michael Joseph, 1958. First. hardcover. good. Hardcover in good condition, with jacket in fair condition. Binding is tight, spine is cocked. Minor edgewear to boards including minor bumping to board corners. Jacket is quite worn, with large chunks and tears, but still intact and now protected in clear non-adhesive plastic. Jacket spine slightly faded, and jacket flap price-clipped. Page block edges and early/rear pages are browned and foxed, but text is clean and free from foxing and annotations. Prior owner's stamp on front free endpaper, prior seller's sticker on front paste-down. Occasional page previously dog-eared. Drawings by Cedric Flower. Sappho Cathal 12/21 Cathal 11/22
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sappho Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79643
- Title
- Mermaid Singing
- Author
- Clift, Charmian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 255pp
Terms of Sale
Sappho Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Sappho Books
Biblio member since 2022
GLEBE, New South Wales
About Sappho Books
Sappho Books is one of Sydney's favourite general second-hand bookstores, with thousands of titles spread over a three-storey heritage building. We're open for browsing seven days a week with a stunning courtyard cafe, which transforms into an intimate bar after hours.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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